ENRIQUE BRINKMANN (Malaga, 1938).
"Subject".
Oil on plywood.
Solo exhibition at Galería Alicante, Spain.
Sizes: 68 x 75 cm; 70 x 76,5 cm (frame).
A self-taught painter and engraver, Brinkmann began painting in the fifties and soon became a member of the Picasso Group in Malaga, collaborating in the Mediterranean Art Movement. In 1961 he travelled to Germany, where he spent three years living in the cities of Berlin and Cologne, while maintaining contact with the "Fluxus" group, illustrating musical scores for Cornelius Cardew. He later settled in Rome before returning to Malaga in 1966 and settling in his native city, although since 1992 he has been working and living for long periods in Madrid. He continues with an intense and extensive work, with involvement in workshops and other activities related to the plastic arts. Throughout his prolific career, Enrique Brinkmann has gone through six formative stages, always respecting the essence that characterises him. Brinkmann has held exhibitions in Spain, the United States, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, and has won prizes such as the drawing prize at the Autumn Salon of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the International Painting Festival Cagnes-sur-Mer in France and the National Engraving Prize in Madrid, among others. He is currently represented at the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Albertina in Vienna, the Wallraf-Richartz in Cologne, the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca and the Juan March Foundation, among many other public and private institutions.