IMI KNOEBEL

Minimal master of play.

Born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in 1940 in Dresden (to become East Germany) the Knoebel family moved west to Mainz in 1950. As a student he trained with the masters of the prewar modern movement Johannes Itten and Moholy-Nagy, before studying under Joseph Beuys.

His work balances both the clean influence of the Bauhaus with more uneasy German art of the postwar era.

Raum 19 III, 1968–2006

Foto: Michael Richter / VG Bild und Kunst Bonn 2017, Imi Knoebel