"All kids are natural artists if they are allowed to be."

Great artists make artists. And to prove that point, over 70 of today's greatest have contributed their work in support of Children's Museum of the Arts' Emergency Arts Education Fund, establishing utterly ambitious art programs in New York City schools that need them most.

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Below, meet auction artist Markus Linnenbrink.

Markus in the mid-1960s

Sketchbook of Markus’s 15 year old daughter Estlin

Painting by Markus’s adult son Julius Linnenbrink, an artist in Berlin

What advice would you give to young artists who wish to pursue an art practice?

Try to be happy being an artist.

How does working with children inspire you?

I have always loved children’s natural and undisturbed approach to creating. All kids are natural artists if they are allowed to be.

When did you first know you were going to be an artist?

I had a very romantic idea of becoming an artist when I was 15.

Can you describe a formative experience visiting a museum or gallery?

I remember being overwhelmed when visiting Rome as a child in the 1960s. Our parents did the whole tour with us.

Markus Linnenbrink 

dayafterdayitreappears 

acrylic, pigments on gesso board

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