Thomas Ruff Artist

Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with other German photographers Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hütte (de). The studio, a former municipal electricity station, was converted between 1998 and 2000 by architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame, and updated with a basement gallery in 2011.

Personal facts

Thomas Ruff
Birth dateFebruary 10, 1958
Birth place
Zell am Harmersbach
Nationality
Germany

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Artist

Field of work
Photography
Influenced by
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Movement
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
training at
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Topical connections

Alois PlumArtist
Abrie FourieArtist

Thomas Ruff on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://schellmannart.com/ruff.htm
  2. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/5182/a-conversation-with-thomas-ruff.html
  3. http://www.aperture.org/jpegs.html
  4. http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/18
  5. http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,6649813_type_video_struct_1441_contentId_6585115,00.html
  6. http://www.jca-online.com/ruff.html
  7. http://www.johnengalerie.de/en/home.htm
  8. http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue5/ruff.htm