Picture from the portfolio "Children's Star" (1989)
Picture from the portfolio "Children's Star" (1989)
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limited, 100 copies | signed | numbered | screenprint | framed | size 82 x 64.5 cm
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Picture from the portfolio "Children's Star" (1989)
In support of the Baden-Württemberg Association of Support Groups for Children with Cancer, the portfolio "Children's Star" was published in 1989. By selling it, two million Deutschmark were donated to the support group.
The offered colour screen print is the artistic contribution of Imi Knoebel to the charity project, in which a total of 22 international artists participated and committed themselves to a good cause.
Original screenprint, 1989. Edition: 100 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Motif size/sheet size 76 x 58 cm. Size in frame 82 x 64.5 cm as shown.
About Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel, born 1940 in Dessau, Germany, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy – in the class of Joseph Beuys.
His works fascinate art lovers all over the world. Knoebel's pictures are strictly non-objective and clear contoured, full of decisiveness and conciseness. At the same time, the intellectual remains invisible. It is the "unpainted" parts that create sensations and sets no limits to the viewer’s imagination.
At the beginning of the 1970s, he formed an artistic triumvirate with his fellow students Imi Giese and Blinky Palermo in the stylistic tradition of American Minimal Art. Based on Kasimir Malevich's Suprematism, he created a fundamental visual language from which he continues to create rigorously abstract and concise images to this day.
For the 800th anniversary of the Reims Cathedral, he was commissioned to design six new stained glass windows that attracted worldwide attention. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg organised a comprehensive exhibition for him.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.