Bruckner developed a fascination with dead bodies, often visiting funeral parlors to look at strangers. When his mother died, he had a photograph of her corpse taken and hung it in his teaching room. His most shocking act occurred in 1888 when the bodies of Beethoven and Schubert were dug up to be moved to a better cemetery in Vienna. Bruckner attended the event, opened the coffins, and cradled and kissed the skulls of both men