Another German artists was asked to design a window for a church. After Gerhard Richter and his famous glass design for the cathedral of cologne and Neo Rauch`s art work in Naumburg, it is Imi Knoebel`s turn. This time, it will be inaugurated on the 25th of June, a German artists has the honor to pattern the two windows to the right and left of the stained glass by Marc Chagall at the cathedral Notre Dame in Reims. This house of god is a national treasure and celebrates its jubilee this year of being 800 years the coronation church. It demonstrates the very good relationship of the two countries nowadays, as exactly this cathedral was bombarded by “wilhelminischen” troops in 1914 and shows the international importance of Imi Knoebel. The two windows are consisting f six parts with a total of 128 m2 and are based on razor cuts by the artist from 1978.
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