Arno Rink (26 September 1940 – 5 September 2017) was a German painter. He was accepted to the

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media a ...

(HGB) in 1962 and studied under

Werner Tübke Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental '' Peasants' War Panorama'' located in Bad Frankenhausen Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhaus ...

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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 The New Leipzig School (german: Neue Leipziger Schule) is a movement in German painting, centred in the city of Leipzig after the German reunification. The usage and origins of this term are debated. History and characteristics The Alte Leipziger ...

, such as

Neo Rauch Neo Rauch (born 18 April 1960, in Leipzig, East Germany; ) is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes ...

, Tilo Baumgärtel, Michael Triegel, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and

Christoph Ruckhäberle Christoph Ruckhäberle (born 1972, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, West Germany) is an artist based in Leipzig. Ruckhäberle studied at the California Institute of the Arts from 1991 to 1992, and received his BFA in painting in 1995 and his MFA in 2002 f ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rink, Arno 1940 births 2017 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists German contemporary artists German male painters People from Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Academic staff of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig