Arno Rink

Portrait on his tombstone

Arno Rink (born September 26, 1940 in Schlotheim ; † September 5, 2017 in Leipzig ) was a German painter , university professor and rector at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics .

Life

From 1955 to 1958 Arno Rink attended high school in Mühlhausen / Thuringia and made his first attempts at drawing. He then began studying art at the Dresden Workers and Farmers Faculty .

In 1961 he applied for the first time to the University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig (HGB), but was rejected there. Arno Rink worked temporarily in the Leipzig wool combing as an elevator operator and lizard driver . After a second application attempt, he began studying at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig in 1962 and completed his undergraduate studies with Werner Tübke , Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume . In 1967 he completed his studies in Bernhard Heisig's specialist class and then worked as a freelancer in Leipzig.

In 1969 Arno Rink initially worked as an aspirant with Gerhard Eichhorn (graphics) at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig, took up teaching himself in 1972 and was given a lectureship in 1975. a. to the Soviet Union , Italy , India , Cuba and several times in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany .

From 1978 to 2005 he took over the management of the specialist class for painting and graphics, was appointed professor in 1979 and held the post of rector at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art from 1987 to 1994 . Arno Rink then worked as Vice Rector until 1997 before he retired in 2005. He continued the master class until 2007.

Arno Rink lived and worked in Leipzig-Schleußig . His urn was buried in the south cemetery in Leipzig .

Grave Arno Rink (2018)

style

Rink's style of painting is described as largely figurative, with elements of socialist realism initially and later surrealism predominating in his works. He was initially influenced by Werner Tübke and is considered a pioneer and teacher of the so-called New Leipzig School , whose student Neo Rauch is one of the best-known representatives .

Awards

• 1978: Art Prize of the GDR
• 1984: National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class
• 1989: Art Prize of the City of Leipzig
• 2005: Max Pechstein Prize of the City of Zwickau as an honorary award

Exhibitions

• Solo exhibitions
  • u. a. in Berlin , Leipzig , Rostock , Dresden , Passau , Frankfurt am Main , Rostock
  • 2010 Neuburg am Inn Castle
• Participation in exhibitions
  • u. a. in Berlin, Moscow , Belgrade , New Delhi , Paris , Vienna , Lisbon , Florence , Assen (Netherlands), Hamburg , participation in the Venice Biennale

Factory locations

• Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
• Art Museum Walter , Augsburg
• National Gallery, Berlin
• Chemnitz municipal art collections
• Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr, Dresden
• Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
• Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Collection , Durbach
• Museum of Young Art , Frankfurt (Oder)
• Moritzburg Foundation , Halle
• Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
• Art collection of the Sparkasse Leipzig
• Gewandhaus, Leipzig
• Germanic National Museum Nuremberg
• Municipal property of the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen
• Museum Ludwig in the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Ludwig Museum for International Art, Beijing
• Hasso Plattner Collection , Potsdam
• Rostock art gallery
• Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
• Museum am Dom, Würzburg
• Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main

There are also plants in Arnsberg and Monte Carlo.

literature

• Karl Schwind (Ed.): Arno Rink. Painting and drawing. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2443-9 (on the occasion of the retrospective in the Kunsthalle Rostock)
• Karl Schwind (Ed.): Arno Rink. Painting and drawing. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-3351-6 .
• Rink & Vlaming painting. A catalog on the occasion of the exhibition by Arno Rink and Miriam Vlaming at Frisch, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024582-4 .
• Arno Rink. Painting and drawing. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig 2003, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-9807653-8-5 . Exhibition description
• Arno Rink. Max Pechstein Prize of Honor of the City of Zwickau 2005. Art collections of the City Museums of Zwickau in cooperation with the Kunstverein Zwickau e. V., ISBN 3-933282-23-3 .
• Anke Scharnhorst:  Rink, Arno . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Interview. In: Die Welt , October 10, 2005; on the occasion of Arno Rink's retirement
• Wilfried Hartleb (Ed.): Arno Rink . »Women« paintings, watercolors and drawings, Passau 2010, ISBN 978-3-939723-19-6 .

Movie

• 1984: Leipzig / Pistorisstrasse. Arno Rink. A production by Saarland Radio / Television (45 minutes). Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker

Web links

• Literature by and about Arno Rink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and selected works in the Schwind Gallery, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main
• The painter-maker. On the death of Arno Rink. In: Der Tagesspiegel. 7th September 2017.
• An incredibly sensual painting In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, accessed on January 23, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ painter Arno Rink died . In: www.t-online.de . ( t-online.de [accessed on September 6, 2017]).
2. ↑ Hanno Rauterberg: Arno Rink: You don't paint like that anymore . In: The time . No. 33 , August 29, 2015 ( online [accessed April 29, 2018]).
3. ↑ Martin Machowecz: Arno Rink: Master of the highly erotic zone - Interview with Neo Rauch. In: ZEIT Online. September 13, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .