1223 Bahram Hajou

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BAHRAM HAJOU
Germany | Artist

Bahram Hajou‘s path to painting was a winding one. Born in Deruna, northern Syria, in 1952, he went to Iraq in the 1970s and began to study Civil Engineering in Nauperdan und Sulemanie in 1972. Just a year later he moved to Baghdad to study Art. In 1974 he fled from the war via Prague to Berlin. From 1976 onwards he studied in Münster. Initially he enrolled for Archaeology at the University of Münster, then in 1977 he changed to the College of Education to study Sports and Art. In 1983 he completed his studies and graduated. Following a brief period of teaching at the Gesamtschule Ückendorf, a comprehensive school in Gelsenkirchen, he has devoted himself to fine arts since the early 1990s.

Bahram Hajou has long been an internationally recognized artist, his paintings are in demand. He lives and works in Münster and working stays also take him to New York and Paris. At the Hawerkamp cultural centre in Münster, where more than 40 artists work, he has a large studio flooded with light. This is where the small, wiry man is to be found every day, wearing his trademark brownfelt Fedora hat in summer and winter alike. He seldom takes this hat off, keeping it on even in the studio. It makes him stand out and easy to spot in a crowd of people. His paintings are highly acclaimed internationally.