Olaf hajek biography

German painter

Olaf Hajek is a German-based illustrator, painter, artist, graphic designer, and author.

Born in North Germany, Hajek lives in Germany, London, and New York City.

Originally studying to be a graphic designer, Olaf switched to illustration and taught alongside the likes of punk fashion legend, Vivienne Westwood.^[1]

Hajek's illustrations have been featured in publications like The Financial Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, GQ, and Architectural Digest.

Personal life

Olaf Hajek was born on 12 December 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany, along the Northern frontier to Denmark.

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Though he was born in Germany, he was raised in the Netherlands before attending art school. Hajek originally went to art school at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf to study graphic design, yet switched to illustration classes when he decided he did not want to spend his career in front of the computer.

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