Biographical Brief
1929: German Immigrant artist arrives in Wisconsin to work for his uncle at A.L.Brink Studio that was contracted to produce painted glass for Tiffany & Co. Studios
Studied: 1931: semester at Columbia University, New York
1934-39: State Academy of Fine Arts, (Staatliche Kunstakademie) Dusseldorf, Germany under
Maximillian Clarenbach
1952: received fellowship to study at Academy Beaux-Arts Matiers d' Art, Paris, France
1959: studied welding and metal fabrication, Milwaukee Area Technical College
1940-45: Lieutenant, German infantry on Russian and Italian fronts
1953: marries Elisabeth "Ello" Hutmacher and moves first to New York and then to Milwaukee.
Worked at Conrad Schmitt Studios, New Berlin, Wisconsin
Taught: 1955 - 1974: Layton School of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1958: began teaching summer art classes, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1974: founds and becomes first president of the Milwaukee School of the Arts (now Milwaukee
Institute of Art & Design)
1961-62: awarded Layton School of Art & Design Fellowship
1962: became chair of Layton School of art faculty
1966-present: guest artist-in-residence , Super Steel Products Corp. and began creating large scale metal
sculptures.
1968: collaborated with Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesizer, on Electronic Sculpture.
1970: Award of Merit for outstanding work, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Wisconsin Chapter
1972: featured in "Artist using a Factory as his Studio" WMVSTV Channel 10
1990: featured in Art's Place, a special program on the arts in Milwaukee, WMVS-TV
1992: honored as Founder of Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with Guido Brink Retrospective
1995: featured guest interview with Jim Peck on I Remember Milwaukee, WMVS-TV
Exhibited: 1953: Art in Architecture, (first slab glass & cement pieces, Architectural League New York
1954: Saint Michael sculpture, German Expressionist Exhibitions, Layton Art Gallery,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1959: The Phoenix, sculptures of Painters, Fairweather-Hardin Gallery Int.Chicago, Illinois
Collections: The Quad Collection 1971-1996.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1959: Portrait of Father Francis C. Wade, S.J. Marquette University, Mlwaukee, Wisconsin
1970: The Spirit of Manitou, Tippecanoe Branch Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin assisted by
architectural firm , Darby, Bogner and Associates.
1972: installs Unfolding Red, Brookfield Public Library, Brookfield, Wisconsin
1973: installs Man and Technology, Waukesha County Technical Institute campus, partially
funded by the Wisconsin Arts council in conjunction with the national Endowment for the Arts and
A.J. Natalizio (rededicated 9/12/2001)
1984: installs The Unfolding, lobby of the Center for the Humanities, Loyola University,
Chicago, Illinois
1987: wins Milwaukee Art Commission competition, Deflected Jets, Engine House No.29,
(Third Battalion)3529 S. 84th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53228
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1992: installs The Happy Go Luckies of Nature and Technology, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee campus
1993: installs Jubilation, Irvin L. Young Auditorium, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 125th
Centennial Celebration (funded through Wisconsin's Percent for Art Program).
1998: donated the Ello and Guido Brink Collection of Portraits of the Teatro Maria era to
Marquette University.