Ole West
Ole West was born in 1953 in the town of Wedel/Holstein near Hamburg, Germany as the son of the artist Gerhard West. At the age of 12 he received his first private sketching lessons from Albert-Ludwig Glaser.
In 1975 he began his studies under the professors S. Oelke and M. Grossmann at the College of Design in Hamburg specialising in the illustrations of books for children and young adults.
In 1979 he graduated with his Master's Degree in design and started creating facades, exhibition stands, large graphics and logos as well as illustrations for films and brochures for Studio Hamburg of the N.D.R., the Ernst Deutsch Theater and others.
Since 1982 West works as a freelance artist. In 1984 he settled down on the island of Norderney in the North Sea, where he concentrated on etchings, oil and watercolor paintings as well as mixed techniques. Here he also founded a painting school for adults in 1985 which he directed until 1990.
Ole West's paintings are displayed in public and private collections all over Germany as well as abroad, for example in the Trinity House, in the National Lighthouse Gentre in Penzance (Great Britain), in the Museum Aquariorn in Delfzijl (Netherlands), and in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. He is also represented with a collection of graphics at the Albert König Museum in Unterlüß.
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