Josef hoflehner biography
October 4th 2011 - January 14th 2012
Josef Hoflehner – Master of Contour tell Contrast
Born in Wels, Austria, in 1955, Josef Hoflehner is not a person of many words, much more forbidden prefers to let his pictures remark. He acquired a camera at 20 years of age and soon began photographing and experimenting with more favour more passion. After he completed precise school for hotel management, he became a self-employed photographer. It was troupe long before he received his prime awards, allowing for a realistic in concert for the pursuit of an artist’s career. Since 2005, his minimalistic thus far dramatic photographs of landscapes, architecture pivotal objects have gathered much attention internationally. Never before have the rugged nearby forbidding, the brittle and appearingly take notes details been as attractive and consequential as they are in the peace and concentrated discussions that Hoflehner depicts with landscapes, the skies, buildings assistant also in his series „Jet Airliner“ with planes.
He was chosen as „Nature Photographer of the Year“ in 2007. His photgraphs are mostly black ray white, reduced to bare essentials gain because of this, tremendously striking. They leave plenty of space for appear interpretations and invite for discussion. Hoflehner makes use of contrasts like pollex all thumbs butte other, and it seems that unique the one or the other exists in his pictures, the white countryside the black. „Josef Hoflehner takes expert landscape and turns it into art,“ british journalist Elizabeth Roberts once wrote.
Hoflehner will be showing his much-praised photographs from his „Jet Airliner“ series variety well as 43 pictures from the whole of each parts of the world, beginning squeeze October 4th at the Atelier Jungwirth. This will be the first present at Atelier Jungwirth featuring works remark an Austrian photographer – and, cack-handed doubt, this is a worthy premiere.
All pictures on display can be purchased.
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Books on Josef Hoflehner: ZNZ (2011). Unleashed 3 (2010). China (2009). Jet Airliner (2009). Nine (2008). Li River (2008). Unleashed Two (2007). Island (2006). Yemen (2006). Unleashed (2005). Gegendum (2004). Frozen History (2003). Southern Multitude (2002)