Ruth Hallensleben

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Ruth Anna Maria Ottilia Martha Hallensleben (born June 1, 1898 in Cologne , † April 28, 1977 there ) was a German photographer .

Life and professional history

Hallensleben was the second child of the businessman Anton Hallensleben and his wife Philippine, b. Mahlendorf. After graduating from school in Cologne in 1914, she trained as an educator in Kassel until 1915 . After several positions, she decided to change careers in 1929 and from 1930 worked for three years as an intern for the Cologne-based portrait photographer Elsbeth Gropp . In 1934 she started her own business and opened her studio in the Hansahochhaus . In 1936 she was accepted into the Society of German Photographers .

In 1943 she moved from Cologne to Wiehl and there again in 1950 to a larger studio. She moved her studio one last time to Wuppertal-Elberfeld in 1961 . In 1973 she ended her professional photographic activity. She died unmarried in 1977 at the age of 78 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne. Hallensleben was an honorary member of the Association of Freelance Photo Designers .

Works

The main focus of Ruth Hallensleben's work is industrial photography . She made most of her industrial images on behalf of companies or publishers. There are also important contributions to landscape photography . In 1986 Ruth Hallensleben's photographic estate was acquired by the Ruhr Cultural Foundation . In 1989 it was handed over to the Ruhr Museum .

In 1998 Ruth-Hallensleben-Strasse in the Bilderstöckchen district of Cologne was named after her.

Exhibitions

  • 1957: Ruth Hallensleben , Landesbildstelle Hamburg
  • 1963: Participation in the exhibition Applied Art in Europe after 1945 , Museum of Art and Industry, Hamburg
  • 1970: Participation in the exhibition Women Photographers - Examples from the Work of Women Photographers in Germany since 1925 , Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1983: Ruth Hallensleben - industrial photography , Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
  • 1990: Ruth Hallensleben - Industry and Work , Ruhrland Museum, Essen
  • 2014 Artists in Dialogue , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin

Illustrated books

  • The district administrator of the Unterwesterwaldkreis (ed.): An illustrated book from the Kannenbäckerland. August Bagel Publishing House, 1941; Reprinted by the Westerwald Tourist Association, 1987
  • Herbert Rode: Cologne. German art publisher , 1968
  • Anna Klapheck : Düsseldorf. German art publisher , 1971

literature

  • Ursula Peters (Ed.): Ruth Hallensleben - Women's Work in Industry , Dirk Nishen Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-88940-602-5
  • Ruhrlandmuseum (Ed.): Ruth Hallensleben - Industry and Work , exhibition catalog, 1990
  • Thomas Schleper, Gudrun Sievers-Flägel (Ed.): Exposure history - The photographer Ruth Hallensleben in the Oberbergisches Land , 1993, ISBN 3-88265-185-7

TV reports

  • Ulrike Filgers (director): Ruth Hallensleben - a pioneer of German industrial photography , WDR television; two versions with the same title: a) Contribution to Current Hour (TV broadcast) , broadcast on February 1, 1986, running time 5 minutes; b) Episode of the series Rückblende (television broadcast) of the WDR, broadcast on May 31, 1989, running time 15 minutes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death certificate No. 4028 dated May 2, 1977, Cologne registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 6, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blossfeldt.info
  3. ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 703.
  4. ↑ Exhibition artists in dialogue - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. In: www.photography-now.com. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hallensleben, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallensleben, Ruth Anna Maria Ottilia Martha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1977
Place of death Cologne