Education
The Cooper Union Art School
BFA, Yale University School of Art, 1956
MFA, Yale University School of Art, 1960
University of London, Slade School of art, 1961
"Birmelin's paintings are brilliant in the way they confront us with a variety of urban spaces and surfaces, including human surfaces. His is a toughminded realism--these are not a tourist's pictures. They flatter no one, and are full of psychological as well as material detail."
