Imi Knoebel (1940)
Germany


Biography :

"Imi Knoebel was born Klaus Wolf Knoebel, in Dessau, Germany in 1940. From 1962 to 1964, he attended the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, where he studied structural design and constructive composition according to the theories of Johannes Itten and László Moholy-Nagy of the Bauhaus. The name "Imi" was bestowed on him by his close friend and fellow art student, Rainer Giese. Together they formed a duo and called themselves Imi & Imi for “Ich mit Ihm” (I with him). From 1964 to 1971, they studied together at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Blinky Palermo, under the professorship of Joseph Beuys.

Imi Knoebel has exhibited four times in Kassel’s Documenta, in 1972, 1977, 1982 and 1987. In 1996, the Haus der Kunst in Munich held a large retrospective of his work which then travelled through Europe and in 2009, another retrospective was held at the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 2018, Imi Knoebel had a large-scale solo show at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich."

(Source, website, Mirabaud)

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