1940 | born as Klaus Wolf Knoebel in Dessau |
1962-64 | Werkkunstschule Darmstadt |
1964-71 | studied at the State Academy of Art in Düsseldorf with Joseph Beuys |
2006 | Honorary doctorate from Friedrich Schiller University, Jena |
1972/77/82/87 | documenta V-VIII Kassel |
2008 | Commissioned to design the glass windows of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Reims |
2011 | Kythera Prize, Düsseldorf |
2011 | Design for the stained glass windows of the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Reims, inauguration 2015 |
2016 | Officier des Arts et des Lettres |