Imi Giese

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Imi Giese (pseudonym for Rainer Giese ; * 1942 in Neheim-Hüsten ; † 1974 ) was a German painter and sculptor of minimalism .

life and work

Giese studied together with Klaus Wolf Knoebel at the Werkkunstschule Darmstadt . In 1964, the artists, who called each other “Imi and Imi” (“Me with him”) during joint appearances, moved to the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where they first attended Walter Breker's commercial art class . There Imi Giese met a student whom he later married, Tita Giese . Imi Giese and Imi Knoebel became friends of the student Blinky Palermo , who had attended the Beuys class at the art academy since 1962, and in 1965 they were able to switch to the (longed for) class of Joseph Beuys .

From 1966 to 1969, Imi Giese and Imi Knoebel moved into the now legendary room 19 of the Beuys class at the academy as a studio , where their mutual IMI identity developed through mutual artistic exchange. Together with Palermo and Katharina Sieverding they developed a minimalist and conceptual position that ran counter to the aesthetics of their teacher Beuys in many ways, but at the same time corresponded with the international representatives of Minimal Art. In room 19 the hard fiber room was created as an installation in collaboration with Knoebel , a modifiable ensemble with hard fiber elements , as a “symbiosis of studio, depot and exhibition room”.

Knoebel kept the jointly chosen first name "Imi" even after his friend Giese died in 1974.

Occasionally, works by the artist are sold in auction shops.

Exhibitions

  • 1968: IMI + IMI , Charlottenburg, Copenhagen
  • 1993: Imi Giese , Kunstverein Munich (then Kunsthalle Zurich; New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz)
  • 1999 Imi Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Imi Knoebel, Palermo, Katharina Sieverding , Kunstverein Braunschweig
  • 2010: Minimalism Germany 1960s , Daimler Contemporain, Berlin

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. website of Artnet .com