Arnim Tölke (born 1963) is a German contemporary painter. Arnim Tölke was born in

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

. He is a former masters student of

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. He is a member of the painter group D.A.R.M. As a painter he often deals with masculine issues, for instance, work that incorporates macho and military imagery. He has traveled extensively to warzones for inspiration, the most notable of which being

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where he had first-hand experiences with the Civil War against the

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. Since 1999 he has been teaching life-drawing at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...

, being an essential component of introduction into the academy life along with his colleague and former classmate Udo Dziersk. Tölke also came to attention for giving private life-drawing classes to ex-pornstar

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1963 births Living people Artists from Göttingen Painters from Lower Saxony 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf {{Germany-painter-stub