From 1953 to 1954, Winkler studied painting and sketching with Juergen Botcher. 1955 to 1956, worked as a trainee draftsman in a state-owned advertising company. Starting from 1956, he applied for studying in Dresden and East Berlin four times in a row, but all failed. Winkler believed that he was rejected because of his political stance, but in fact it was because people thought his skills were not mature enough at that time. After his apprenticeship, Winkler also worked as a cook, night shift worker, postman and actor.

Winkler became a candidate of Plastic Artists Association on 1966, and took A.R. Punk as his pen name. The name is based on the geographer Albright Punk who studied the ice age. However, since 1969, the conflict between punk and the National Security Bureau of the former GDR has been increasing day by day: his paintings were confiscated by the authorities and his membership in the Plastic Artists Association was also deprived.

197 1 year, Winkler joined the Luc Artists Group and began to adopt the pen name Mike? 1974 After Winkler finished his military service, especially after 1975, the West Berlin Art Research Association awarded him the Weil Glaumann Prize, the Ministry of National Security controlled him more and more. From 65438 to 0976, punk got to know Joerg Immendorff, a West German painter, and worked together for several years, using the pen names Rudolf Barr and Robert Huffman, and devoted himself to eliminating the boundary between East and West and artistic creation without party affiliation. 1977, the customs seized and confiscated Winkler's painting signed by Y.

1979 In May, the government authorities broke into Winkler's studio and destroyed his works and creative materials. 1On August 3rd, 980, Winkler moved to West Germany and temporarily stayed in Cologne. 198 1 The Goethe Foundation in Basel awarded the Punk Rembrandt Prize. 1983 moved to London, and 1985 won the Aachen artist award. 1984 Winkler participated in the exhibition "From Here" in Dü sseldorf as a representative of German neo-expressionist art. Winkler participated in the MADE exhibition in Cologne from 65438 to 0988, and was hired as an art professor by Dü sseldorf Art Institute in the same year.

Punk uses pictographic symbols and ideographic symbols in his paintings, reminding people of grotto culture, Asian calligraphy and mural art. In 1970s, punk created the artistic trend of Standart-Bilder. He believes that, just like some traffic signs or trademarks, this artistic trend of using simple and original images can make the audience feel the content of the works more appropriately.

In addition, in the 1980s, punk also participated in the "new grotesque" trend. During this period, he joined TTT Group as a musician-he often cooperated with frank wright, Frank Law, Jenny Lee, Allen Silva, Peter Kowald, Helge Leberg and Luis Moholo.

Public collections (partial) Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Walter Museum of Modern Art, Hamburg Municipal Art Museum, Frankfurt Stander Art Museum, Amsterdam City Museum, Dresden City Art Museum, Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art.