Imi Knoebel

born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940 - lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
intro works bio Imi Knoebel @ deweer

Imi Knoebel is a German artist, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in 1940 in Dessau, Germany. From 1964 to 1971, Knoebel studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow students like Blinky Palermo, Jörg Immendorff and Katharina Sieverding. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture, exploring the relationship between space, pictorial support and color. The style and formal concerns of his work have been compared with the high modernist principles of Kazimir Malevich and the Bauhaus.

Knoebel's works are held in numerous public collections, including Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) in France, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen in Switzerland, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany and Malmö Konsthall in Sweden.