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 Graphic design is a profe ...

(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. Associated with the Leipzig School, he is ...

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. 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 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 owe ...

Tilo Baumgärtel Tilo Baumgärtel (born 1972) is a German painter. He currently lives and works in Leipzig. Baumgärtel was born in Dresden. He attended the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig from 1991 to 1994. He is part of a group of young painters b ...

Michael Triegel Michael Triegel, born 13 December 1968 in Erfurt, is a German painter, illustrator and graphic artist based in Leipzig. He is associated with the New Leipzig School. He studied painting and graphic art under Arno Rink at the Hochschule für Grafik ...

, Tim Eitel,

David Schnell Davis Schnell (born 1971, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) is an internationally exhibited German painter. From 1995 until 2000 he studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and then from 2000 to 2002 he was a student i ...

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 200 ...

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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