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For many decades, Edgar Knoop (Dortmund 1936) has consistently engaged as both artist and scholar with compositional schemes based on considerations of color and form harmonies and the relationship between light, color, form, and surface. His multidisciplinary body of work, which includes collage, sculpture, installation, tapestry, photography, and public art, explores the effects and laws of Concrete Art and Op Art. Knoop's works draw on the ideas of Vitruvius, Fibonacci, da Vinci, and Le Corbusier, and deal with the color-theoretical considerations of Goethe, Itten, Newton, and others. The series Rosebuds uses diffraction foil, which the artist discovered in New York in the 1970s and which makes it possible to experience the entire color spectrum of light by refracting the light waves - depending on the viewing angle. Edgar Knoop was professor of experimental and applied color theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1972-2000. He lives in Seeboden at Lake Millstatt / Carinthia.
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