Wim Knotter
Welcome to the site of the Dutch visual artist and writer
His artworks refer to the inner man by portraying man and his individual potentials resonating in affinity with the cosmic whole.
Born on August 2nd 1927 in Amsterdam, Wim, as a young child remembers the other world before his life on Earth.
This memory will shape the basis of his life and work.
Touched by human integrity, Wim has lived through the different stages and facets of life seeking answers to essential questions, the unexplained aspects of human being and the understanding of the worlds around us.
His works bear witness to Unknowable Love.
The artist was active between 1946 and 1972 in the Netherlands.
Around 1964, inspired by the vision of André Breton, he created the ’Ordered Surrealism’. This style, combined with its Conceptual Art models, composes its artistic expression.
He says:
“Reality is not known through scientific constructs alone.
As an artist, I have spent a lifetime searching for what transcends me and many others with me.
There is nothing of myself, everything is there in the cosmos.
We cultivate as thinker, whilst Unknowable Love reveals.
Unknowable Love that functions everywhere and in everything through the cosmic balance.”
From 1970 until 1990, Wim gave lectures and exhibited his works in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium and South America.
In 1986 he retired in France where he deepened his study of human psychology, the great spiritual writings of the world, their schools and traditions as well as the works of the thinkers, visionaries and scientists of all times.
This immense analytical research, which the author calls a “Comparative Anatomy of Systems and Living Beings, » raises an independent and deeply innovative concept of human origin and human presence on earth.
A captivating concept that brings transparency and encourages innovative universal relationships.
This virtual exhibition shows an overview of Wim Knotter’s paintings between 1964 and 2020.
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