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Imi Knoebel, born 1940 in Dessau, Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf. Along with Palermo, he is considered one of the most important German abstract painters of the post-Beuys generation. His work returns to the roots of the concept of painting; it is a consistent exploration of the medium, the conditions it requires and the possibilities it presents. His geometric forms are abstracted, often quite directly, from nature and his life experience, including his experience of existing art - art from the Modernist canon. It is characteristic of Knoebel´s experimental, conceptual approach that he undermines geometry with new forms; in his paintings, form and color coalesce into energetic fields.
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