Olaf Hauke

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Olaf Hauke (* 1935 in Breslau ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Hauke ​​studied graphics and book art in Leipzig . In his panel paintings, painted in a technique similar to that of the old masters, he takes up themes that he shapes in a surrealistic or ironic manner . He is married to the book and film author Mechthild Curtius, who lives in Frankfurt am Main . In 1989 the couple founded the Curtius and Hauke ​​edition , in which texts by Curtius appear, which are combined with color flat-screen graphics by Hauke.

The artist lives and works in Hanau-Steinheim and Frankfurt am Main.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1982 Olaf Hauke , Darmstadt Art Association
  • 1989 Proverbs , Museum Hanau, Philippsruhe Castle (with Mechthild Curtius)
  • 2002 Thomas Mann - Germany and the emigrants , Buddenbrookhaus, Lübeck

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