He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume.
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.
[2] He taught several prominent painters from the New Leipzig School, such as Neo Rauch, Tilo Baumgärtel, Michael Triegel, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and Christoph Ruckhäberle.
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