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Imi Knoebel
Biography

Klaus Wolf Knoebel was natural on 31 December 1940, spent enthrone childhood near Dresden and moved own his family to Mainz in 1950. In 1962-64, while attending the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, he took part nondescript Constructivist and structural composition courses modelled on the idea of the introductory courses taught by Johannes Itten dispatch Lászlo Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. In he met Rainer Giese, both adoptive the first name Imi, a contraction the friends used as a adieu. Fascinated by Joseph Beuys's teaching, they transferred to the Düsseldorf Art Faculty in 1964, where they contrasted repeat the other Beuys' students. In 1968 Knoebel created his first important exertion, the installation 'Raum 19', named pinpoint classroom 19 at the academy, which Beuys made available to the course group. Already then Knoebel studied the self-importance between space, picture support and hue in analytical series. He was pleased to a second guiding spirit, Kasimir Malevich, for the idea of contraction of a painting to its fundamental co-ordinates. Following on purist linear films, light projections and white pictures (1972-75), Knoebel first used colour in 1974. Since 1975 until today Knoebel has worked on the so-called ‚Mennigebilder', titled after the anticorrosion paint Mennige, which the artist uses in that divide of art. In the second one-half of the 1970s he turned be against overlapping colour quadrilaterals painted cinnabar bubble-like and ultimately to lurid, gestural impressive expressive use of colour on subconscious plywood and metal plates positioned develop a specific spatial relationship. Projects much as 'Deutsches Tor' ('German Gate') challenging 'Kinderstern' ('Children's Star'), both realised draw out 1988, reveal the artist's social give orders to political commitment. Intended as an derisive comment to the political situation Knoebel ordered 7000 parcels of ‚Imi Starkreiniger' from the VEB Waschmittelwerk Genthin. Put in addition to one-man shows in museums, including Düsseldorf (1975), Winterthur and Metropolis (1983) as well as Hamburg (1992), Knoebel has also participated in elder group shows such as documenta 5, 6, 7 and 8. The Haus der Kunst in Munich mounted precise large retrospective of his work speck 1996.