EARLY LIFE
Alexander Hollweg was born in London in 1936. His father was a German Olympic ice-hockey player who came from a long line of bankers and diplomats. His mother was the daughter of Edward Wadsworth, the Modernist painter, and the violinist Fanny Eveleigh.
Hollweg attended boarding school from 1945 and increasingly chose drawing as his means of expression. Following two years of National Service with the British Army of the Rhine, he took up a place to study French and German at New College, Oxford. But his creative life increasingly dominated his academic work.
During two years of National Service Hollweg kept a sketchbook of drawings, capturing everyday scenes, including interactions between officers.
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This colourful line drawing shows the beginnings of Hollweg developing his visual language. His interest in interactions between people and landscape are already present.
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