Happy Birthday to art car artist A. R. Penck! 🚗🎨 Born in 1939 as Ralf Winkler, Penck is known for his famous “stick men” and visual vocabulary which he started creating in 1960. Inspired by Picasso, Rembrandt and prehistoric cave paintings, Penck’s paintings are more than just characters and numbers: his symbols are made through a long process of abstraction and can be decoded to uncover hidden meanings. 🔍 Unlike some of our Art Cars, Penck’s car was never driven on the road or in a race; it was only designed to be seen in exhibitions. “Art on art, art on technology - that interested me - especially on a three-dimensional object.” ~ A.R. Penck What do you think is written on #BMWArtCar 11? 📸: 11th Edition of the BMW Art Car by #ARPenck, 1991 Z1.