Carlos Cairo was born in Cologne (Germany) on August 8th 1938. His real name is Christian, Michael Reimbold. Since generations art has been a constant element in his father's house. His grandfather was not only an industrial manufacturer, but also an adventurer, a collector of art and a greatly talented landscape-painter. His talent was inherited by his son, Thomas Reimbold, who, after having completed his law studies, became a sculptor and a writer. Young Christian Michael, due to the War, to the post-war events and to the failed marriage between his father and his mother, a noble of Balkan origins, was taken to several boarding-schools and among these to a Jesuit boarding-school. There he had the great luck of meeting teachers who encouraged his talent for painting and music and whose initiative led to his first exhibitions. During his last school years spent in Cologne he started a band " The Modern Jazz Youngsters ". He was the band's drummer.
There followed numerous concerts, also at the radio. Among the many musicians, he played with the saxophonist Lee Konitz at the BFN (British Forces Network). After having graduated at a classical liceo and after a short working experience in a private bank of Hamburg he became irresistibly attracted by far-off countries. This is why he decided to go to Istambul, where he found a job as a management assistant. However, due to the military takeover of 1960, he was forced to go back to Germany. During the sixties he studied national economics in Berlin and Tübingen. In Berlin he attended drawing courses at the Academy of fine arts. During the seventies he travelled far away, to Africa, America and the Far East. This is the period during which he started to dedicate himself more to painting and documentary films. At the end of the '70's C.M.Reimbold decided to devote himself totally to his greatest talent, painting. He moved to Rome, cradle of representational art, where he soon managed to get in touch with owners of art galleries and publicists, all fond of painting. There followed numerous exhibitions, reviews and acknowledgements. He was also invited to Teheran in 1984 and to Los Angeles in 1989. In 1992, during an important exhibition at the International Cultural Centre " Kattwinkel'sche Fabrik " in Wermelskirchen (Germany), the painter, with more than 160 paintings, offered a great scenery of his work.