Tilo Baumgärtel was born in Leipzig in 1972 and is a contemporary painter. From 1991 to 1994 he attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, from 1994 to 1998 the painting class of Arno Rink, with whom he was a master student from 1998 to 2000. He has lived in Leipzig as a freelance painter since 1999. In the summer semester of 2020, Tilo Baumgärtel took over the professorship for painting in the art department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. He works regularly with Sebastian Hartmann.
