Emil Cimiotti was born in 1927 in Göttingen; he is currently living and working in Lower Saxony. Already qualified at stonemasonry, Cimiotti conducted his art studies in Stuttgart, at the Academy of Fine Arts, and later also in Berlin and Paris. His paintings are being associated with Informal and can be seen as an amplification of his sculptures. He began developing his style around the mid-50s, focusing on bronze as his primary material and creating his signature pieces of organic, porous pieces, more or less abstract. During the 60s, with the emerging spirit of the New Figuration, he often grounded his representational thematics in antiquity and mythology, for example, the metamorphosis of Daphne. Later on, with his sculptural interpretations of nature, the artist has turned towards reduction and abstraction once again. Cimiotti has been widely exhibited and awarded throughout his whole career, four times honored with the prestigious Junge Westen prize (1957, 1958, 1959, 1962), included at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture in Pittsburgh (1958, 1961), Venice Biennale (1958, 1960) and the Documenta in Kassel (1959, 1964). Cimiotti died on October 13 in 2019 in Wolfenbüttel. In 2018 his work was shown as part of a retrospective for his 90. Birthday at the Edwin Schwarff Museum in Neu Ulm, as well as another retrospective at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin.