Ioan Iacob lives and works in Dusseldorf.  Born in 1954 in Biertan (jud Sibiu), the artist settled in 1975 in Dusseldorf (Germany) where he studied at the Academy of Arts in Dusseldorf under the guidance of Professor Gotthard Graubner, one of the greatest abstract colorists of recent art. He, therefore, assimilates the experience of color from the one who taught him that a composition must be “diaphane,  ethereal and finally round”. Ioan Iacob takes over the professor's habits until later, in Madrid, he sees live the painting of Diego Velazquez and becomes a real modern precursor of it. As a student, he made a study trip to Egypt (1981), offered by the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, and then received the Max Ernst scholarship of the city of Bruhl (1982). Since 1986, Iacob has had solo exhibitions in Germany, and also in other countries like the Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Greece, and Israel. In 2005 and 2009 he was invited to En Hod in Israel in a cultural exchange conducted by the city of Dusseldorf. In Romania, after his first solo show in 2006 at Curtea Veche Gallery in Bucharest, other exhibitions took place in the most important cultural centers of the country, from Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Timisoara, Bistrita to Constanta, Tulcea, Mogosoaia or Ploiesti. The works of Ioan Iacob are found in private collections in Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Brussels. Among the fierce collectors of the works are Georg Bockmann and Willi Kemp. The canvases of Ioan Iacob were exhibited alongside the works of Tiziano Vecellio, El Greco, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Turner, Eugene Delacroix, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Francis Bacon, MaxBeckmann, Mona Hatoum, and more, Shirin Neshat, Gerhard Richter, Christo etc in museums such as Kunst-Palast in Dusseldorf. His works are in art museums in his two countries, Germany and Romania, being one of the most appreciated Romanian artists in the diaspora.