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Imi Knoebel
German artist
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Born | Klaus Wolf Knoebel 1940 (age 84–85) Dessau, Germany |
Occupation | German artist |
Imi Knoebel (/i:mi: kno:ʊbəl/) (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel; 1940) is a German artist.
Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstractpainting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," is a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue.
This focused exhibition explores the experiences of women working in sculpture during the wartime and immediate post-war period.Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Early life and career
Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940.[1] From 1962 to 1964, he studied at the Darmstadt "Werkkunstschule", in a course based on the ideas of the pre-Bauhaus course taught by Johannes Itten and László Moholy-Nagy.
From 1964 to 1971, he studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf[2] with fellow students Blinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio and