- Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel (
1940 ), is a Germanartist . He is known primarily for hisminimalist and abstractpainting andsculpture .Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. [ [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500124422 ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) ] ] From 1964 to 1971, he studied under
Joseph Beuys at theKunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow studentsBlinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio) andJörg Immendorff . [ [http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_b/knoebel/ Imi Knoebel ] ]Knoebel's work explores the relationship between space, picture support and color. [ [http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/ImiKnoebel-1940.shtml Imi Knoebel - Biography and Offers ] ] The style and formal concerns of his painting and sculpture have drawn comparisons with the high
modernist principles of bothKazimir Malevich and theBauhaus [John-Paul Stonard: "Knoebel, Imi" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [14-02-2007] , http://www.groveart.com/]Knoebel's works are held in numerous public collections, including in
Beacon, New York , the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) inFrance , the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen inSwitzerland , the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen inGermany and Malmö Konsthall inSweden .References
Further reading
* "Imi Knoebel: Works 1968–1996" (exh. cat, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Mus. and elsewhere, 1996).
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