The Boat and the Sea

It "tells of the almost mystical compulsive feeling of wanting to reach the horizon over the sea, standing on the shore. Olaf Hoppe succeeds in giving shape to this theme, which is unusual for a woodcut, and in wrestling it from the wooden surface without violating its own laws, which tend to oppose a dissolution into the spatial, by superimposing five colours on top of each other in a glaze, so that they are able to influence each other - similar to watercolour."

Born in Rostock in 1959

1968-1978 Conservatory Rostock (Painting/graphics)

1976-1978 profession training

1980-1985 Study of art college Berlin, Weißensee

Painting/graphics section, Prof. Dieter Gantz, Heinrich Tessmer

1985 Diploma

1985 freelance painter and graphic artist