Imi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel (1940), is a German artist. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture. Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. From 1964 to 1971, he studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow students Blinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio), Jörg Immendorff and Katharina Sieverding. Knoebel's work explores 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. Knoebel's works are held in numerous public collections, including Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, the Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) in France, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen in Switzerland, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany and Malmö Konsthall in Sweden