About Arno Rink
Lived 1940 – 2017 (aged 76). Arno Rink was a German painter and university teacher.
Arno Rink (26 September 1940 – 5 September 2017 ) was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with the second generation of the Leipzig School, which paints in a German figurative tradition.
Rink started to teach at the HGB in 1979 and was its headmaster from 1987 to 1995. He taught several prominent painters from the New Leipzig School, such as Neo Rauch, Tilo Baumgärtel, Michael Triegel, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and Christoph Ruckhäberle.
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Who was Arno Rink?
German painter (1940-2017)
When was Arno Rink born?
Arno Rink was born on 26 September 1940 in Schlotheim.
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Arno Rink died on 5 September 2017 in Leipzig.
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Arno Rink was a painter and university teacher.
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Arno Rink was German.
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