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Imi Knoebel (Klaus Wolf Knoebel) was born on 1940 in Dessau, Germany, is a German artist. Discover Imi Knoebel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation German artist
Age 84 years old
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Born 1940
Birthday 1940
Birthplace Dessau, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1940

Imi Knoebel (/i:mi: kno:ʊbəl/) (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel; 1940) is a German artist.

Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting 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.

Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940.

1962

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.

1964

From 1964 to 1971, he studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow students Blinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio and a love), Jörg Immendorff, Ivo Ringe and Katharina Sieverding.

Knoebel's work explored the relationship between space, picture support, and color.

The style and formal concerns of his painting and sculpture have drawn comparisons with the high modernist principles of both Kazimir Malevich and the Bauhaus

1966

Between 1966 and 1969, Knoebel worked on a series of "Linienbildern", or line paintings, encompassing 90 panels Another series of 250,000 "Linienbilder" drawings were done on DIN A4 sheets in the years between 1969 and 1973/75.

1968

In 1968 Knoebel created his first major work, an installation with a variety of geometrical objects called Raum 19, named after classroom No. 19, which Beuys had given to his students at the academy.

Raum 19 comprises seventy-seven components made from wood and Masonite, including painting stretchers, both assembled and in pieces; large constructions of stretchers with untreated Masonite attached as picture planes; and larger cubic volumes and curved blocks that resemble sections of an arched window or door frame.

Beginning in 1968, Knoebel was one of the first Beuys students to use photography as an independent artistic medium.

For his Innenprojektionen (Interior Projections; 1968–1970) black-and-white photographs, he started using empty slide projections, creating empty squares of light, projected on a wall or in a darkened, closed-off room.

This later evolved to his placing slides covered in copy ink with precisely carved vertical and horizontal lines into the projector and then cast throughout the room.

Projecting these lines at various angles throughout a darkened space, at windows, corners, wall fittings and architectural irregularities, offered limitless possibilities for the artist.

Knoebel documented these light projections with his camera and displayed the variations in large grids, often with as many as 80 photographs comprising a single work.

Knoebel's 1968 Projektion 1, is a series of luminous, disorienting black-and-white photographs of light projections that bring to mind the architectural slicings that Gordon Matta-Clark was conducting at that time.

Knoebel's first exhibition, IMI + IMI, with Imi Giese, a fellow student of Beuys's, was held in Copenhagen in 1968.

1970

Projection X (1970–71) and Projektion X Remake (2005), two versions of the same video concept, are his only videotapes based on these outdoor projections.

During a nocturnal drive through the sleeping city of Darmstadt, a large, luminous X-shaped beam of light was projected from a vehicle onto the walls of buildings.

The collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Hessian State Museum Darmstadt) holds extensive series of photographs, slides, and the video Projection X by Knoebel.

From the mid-1970s on, Knoebel then turned towards a gestural use of color on layered plywood boards or metal plates.

The monumental series, acquired by Dia Art Foundation in the 1970s, was meticulously restored by the artist, who installed the work at Dia:Beacon in May 2008, marking its first-ever exhibition in North America.

1972

Since that time, he has exhibited his works in documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and at Sonsbeek (1971).

1975

From 1975 to date, Knoebel has been working on overlapping coloured rectangles called "Mennigebilder" ("Red Lead Pictures"), named after an anti-corrosion paint used in steel construction by the name of Mennige Paint, which the artist has used in these works.

1977

Whereas in his early years his palette was reduced to white, black, and brown, since 1977 he has been producing works with more color.

His painting has since been characterized by a gesturally expressive application of colour on panels of layered plywood and metal placed in specific spatial relation.

Knoebel made a series of 24 colorful monochromes in homage to his friend Blinky Palermo after Palermo's death in 1977.

1980

In the 1980s, Knoebel continued his associative loading of geometricizing picture elements and started to focus on the portrait.

The arrangement of three, in colour nuanced vertical rectangulars next to and between two horizontal rectangulars is Knoebel's formal solution for depicting the notion ‘portrait’.

1988

In 1988, Knoebel created the work Kinderstern, a Social Sculpture realizing the extended notion of art, formulated in 1967 by Joseph Beuys, his Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, by which art also ought to change society.

Since 1988, Kinderstern (Children Star) stands for the Children's rights and is the only artwork worldwide where proceeds go 100% to children in need.

More than a century after being severely damaged by German bombing raids, Knoebel designed three new stained glass windows for the Reims Cathedral.

Knoebel refused payment for his participation in the project.

The creation of the colored, patterned windows, which cost €900,000, was financed by the German Foreign Ministry.

1992

In 1992, Knoebel created a second version of “Raum 19” for the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Hessian State Museum Darmstadt) in close proximity to Joseph Beuys' “Block Beuys.” In 1968, Knoebel also used photography as an artistic medium.

1997

In 1997, the German Bundestag commissioned Knoebel to create the four-part installation Rot Gelb Weiß Blau 1-4 for one of its office buildings.

2011

In June 2011, Knoebel's six stained-glass panes within the apse of the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral were unveiled alongside the stained-glass works of Marc Chagall completed in 1974.

2015

They were officially presented on May 12, 2015, during a ceremony attended by the Foreign Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and Laurent Fabius of France.