HUBERTUS VON HOHENLOHE

The artist | Photographer:

In 2001, Hubertus Hohenlohe initiated a photo series called “Ira Valencia” in which he is both the director and the central figure. He was discovered by the artist Irene Da Punt, who saw his photographs on the cover of his album Spiegelbilder.” A series of exhibits followed: Barcelona (2002), Marbella (2003), Bratislava (2004), Pisa (2004), Bologna (2004), Hamburg (2005), Vienna (2005), Paris (2006), Hamburg (Born to Play 2006), and the Byzantine Museum in Athens (2007). Contracts in advertising came about as a result, for example from Palmers and Puma. Most recently, Sir Rocco Forte commissioned Hubertus Hohenlohe for a series of photographs for the restaurant of his legendary Brown’s Hotel in London. Recently he published a photographic book : ‘’Urban Jungle’’ this must -have publication for all photography buffs and travel lovers alike, holds a furtive, almost paparazzo-like insight into the life of a man who was born in the public eye. The striking images of his own self-portrait reflections captured in shop windows, in cities as diverse as Paris, Istanbul and Bologna, have a magical quality to them. Von Hohenlohe is quite obviously there, legs in a stance eerily like a tripod and digital camera in hand, but the photos are almost as much about what the viewer does NOT see – a clear, perhaps more vulnerable view of the man behind the celebrity – than what is distinctly visible. This collection chronicles the photographs of Renaissance man Hubertus von Hohenlohe. Echoing the statements of his friend and mentor, Andy Warhol, von Hohenlohe’s work is modern and visionary. The central theme of Hubertus Hohenlohe’s photography is his own cosmopolitan life.

Family:

Hubertus von Hohenlohe was immersed in the jet set lifestyles of the 60s and 70s from his birth in 1959 in Mexico City. As a child he moved back and forth between the Spanish Marbella Club Hotel, a meeting point for the rich and famous owned by his father, Alfonso von Hohenlohe, and the Italian film production center Cinecittà, where his mother, Ira von Fürstenberg, appeared in over 30 films.

Musician:

Hubertus Hohenlohe has been involved with pop culture from very early on. He wrote and performed his first hit single “Andy” about his days in New York, where he met Andy Warhol at Studio 54. He has also worked with other artists, including Yello and Shirley Bassey. He has since released a total of four albums and is currently working on a fifth, titled “Polaroid P.”