{{Short description|Chilean conceptual artist (1954–2020)}} {{Family name hatnote|Brintrup|Kruger|lang=Chilean}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox academic | name = Sybil Brintrup | birth_name = Sybil Brintrup Kruger | birth_date = 11 May 1954 | birth_place = Puerto Montt, Chile | death_date = 12 August 2020 | death_place = Santiago, Chile | education = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 1978 | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20191214113501/https://www.oficinadearte.cl/|oficinadearte.cl}} | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * Universidad Santo Tomás<!--Q6156681--> * Universidad La República * Pontifical Catholic University of Chile }} }} '''Sybil Brintrup Kruger''' (11 May 1954 – 12 August 2020) was a Chilean conceptual artist, writer, teacher and professor.<ref name="AVC">{{cite web |title=Sybil Brintrup |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40133.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=27 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115255/http://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40133.html |archive-date=28 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="Guerrero">{{cite web |last=Guerrero |first=Marcela |title=Digital Archive Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985; Sybil Brintrup |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/sybil-brintrup |website=Hammer Museum |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles |access-date=27 May 2026 |location=Los Angeles, California |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115256/https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/sybil-brintrup/ |archive-date=28 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="Contreras">{{cite news |last1=Contreras |first1=Emilio |title=Fallece a los 66 años Sybil Brintrup, destacada artista conceptual chilena |url=https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/artes-y-cultura/actualidad-cultural/2020/08/14/fallece-a-los-66-anos-sybil-brintrup-destacada-artista-conceptual-chilena.shtml |access-date=27 May 2026 |work=Radio Bío-Bío |date=14 August 2020 |location=Chile |language=es}}</ref> Brintrup was known for her Los Romances project, which explored the romantic relationship between a woman and five objects: sheep, cows, lettuce, bales of hay, and tractors.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Risco">{{cite web |last1=Risco |first1=Ana María |title=Sybil Brintrup: ROMANCES CON VIDEO |url=https://revista.ecfrasis.com/2020/09/23/sybil-brintrup-romances-con-video/ |journal=Estudios Críticos de Arte y Cultura Contemporánea |access-date=28 May 2026 |language=es |date=23 September 2020}}</ref>

==Biography== Brintrup was born on 11 May 1954 in Puerto Montt.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Guerrero"/> Initially studying education, Brintrup later enrolled at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile where she studied aesthetics and fine art.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="CCHV">{{cite web |title=Un año sin Sybil Brintrup |url=https://cchv.cl/un-ano-sin-sybil-brintrup/ |website=CCHV |publisher=Corporación Chilena de Video y Artes Electrónicas |access-date=27 May 2026 |language=es |date=May 2021}}</ref> In 1976, Brintrup worked at the University as a life drawing assistant before graduating with a specialization in painting in 1978.<ref name="AVC"/>

During 1982 to 1983, Brintrup was a teacher of vitreous enamel techniques at the Cultural Center Mapocho ({{Langx|es|Centro Cultural Mapocho}}).<ref name="AVC"/> In 1983, Brintrup relocated to Belgium where she began working on the ''Los Romances''.<ref name="Risco"/><ref name="CCHV"/><ref name="Memoria Chilena"/> The ''Los Romances'' project explored the romantic relationship between a woman and five objects: sheep, cows, lettuce, bales of hay, and tractors.<ref name="Risco"/> Between 1984 and 1990, the ''Los Romances'' was primarily conducted through mail art.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Risco"/> In 1984, Brintrup held her first solo exhibition at the Central Library of Louvain-la-Neuve.<ref name="AVC"/>

Returning to Chile, Brintrup worked in a private workshop as a teacher of vitreous enamel between 1986 and 1990, before working at the Bobenrietd & Brintrup design studio during 1990 to 1994.<ref name="AVC"/> In 1992, Brintrup published her first artbook ''Vaca mía'' in concordance with an installation at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Risco"/> Brintrup's work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Hammer Museum and the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art.<ref name="AVC"/><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/la-comida | title=La Comida | access-date=2019-05-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115305/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/la-comida | archive-date=2019-07-28 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/la-comida-the-meal/ | title=La comida (The meal) &#124; Sybil Brintrup, Magali Meneses &#124; Radical Women digital archive | access-date=2019-05-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115256/https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/la-comida-the-meal/ | archive-date=2019-07-28 | url-status=live }}</ref>

===Professorship=== Between 1994 and 2002, Brintrup worked as a professor at the Universidad Santo Tomás<!--Q6156681--> School of Graphic Design teaching model making and perception, and later lettering and drawing.<ref name="AVC"/> From 2003 to 2006, Brintrup taught color at the {{ill|Universidad La República|es}}, whilst also teaching the creativity development workshop at the Universidad Santo Tomás during 2003 to 2004.<ref name="AVC"/>

Brintrup began a professor of color, video and performance at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2004.<ref name="AVC"/>

==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last=Brintrup |first=Sybil |title=Vaca mía |date=1992 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Vaca_m%C3%ADa/CA7GGwAACAAJ?hl=en |publisher= Bobenrieth & Brintrup |isbn=9789567310012}}

*{{cite book |last=Brintrup |first=Sybil |title=Los romances: ella y las ovejas |date=1994 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Los_romances/aSu3AAAAIAAJ?hl=en |publisher=Cuarto Propio |location=Santiago, Chile |isbn=9789562600736}}{{efn|Also cited as 1995.<ref name="CCHV"/><ref name="Memoria Chilena">{{cite web |title=Libros de artista; Contexto chileno |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-95555.html |website=Memoria Chilena |publisher=National Library of Chile |access-date=27 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>}}

*{{cite book |last=Brintrup |first=Sybil |title=Los romances: ellas y las lechugas |date=2005 |url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Los_romances/YwjCtAEACAAJ?hl=en |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |location=Santiago, Chile |isbn=9789568094003}}

*{{cite book |last=Brintrup |first=Sybil |title=Los romances: ella y los fardos de pasto |date=2009 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Los_romances/2M0lQwAACAAJ?hl=en |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |location=Santiago, Chile |isbn=9789568094010}}

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