02 Works, The art of War, Arno Rink's Terror I and Terror II, with Footnotes

Arno Rink

Terror II, c. 1973

Oil on canvas

160 x 255 cm

Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

In this paintings Rink wanted to talk about the situation in a country with one of the most hateful and cruel dictators of the time: General Augusto Pinochet, who took power in 1973 in Chile (the USA helped, as is well known) and repressed his people with an iron fist. Many simply disappeared.

There are no direct references to Chile in this work by Rink, so it is an image that can be extrapolated to any other political anomaly in the world, at any time, which is appreciated in a work of art. More on this painting

Arno Rink

Terror I, c. 1973

Oil on canvas

 60 x 73 cm. 

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

With great brutality, policemen are depicted thrashing two people, presumably demonstrators. A boot on the right side of the painting points to a maltreated man.

In the diction of East German art history, the painting represents a time when “the terror of social fringe groups escalated increasingly, much like the brutality of the state police in capitalist countries”. More on this painting

Arno Rink (26 September 1940 – 5 September 2017]) was born in Schlotheim (Thuringia) and studied for three years from 1958 at the ABF for Fine Arts in Dresden. After he was initially rejected from the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, he studied there from 1962 under Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, among others, and became a lecturer, professor and finally rector. He was a teacher of important contemporary artists such as Neo Rauch, Michael Triegel, Tilo Baumgärtl and David Schnell. After a long illness, Arno Rink died in Leipzig in 2017. Rink is described as a pioneer of the New Leipzig School and his paintings are described as sensual and particularly modern. His works are characterized by an expressive, figurative style. More on Arno Rink

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