Tata Ronkholz

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Tata Ronkholz (actually Roswitha Ronkholz , * 1940 in Krefeld , †  1997 in Hürth - Kendenich ) was a German photographer and designer .

Life

From 1961 to 1965 Ronkholz studied architecture and interior design at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld . After working at the Schroer furniture store in Krefeld from 1965 to 1966, she worked as a freelance furniture designer until 1977. Among other things, she designed a living area made of individual foam elements for the company "habit". In 1977 Ronkholz began studying at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf ; from 1978 to 1985 Ronkholz studied with Bernd Becher . Along with Volker Döhne , Andreas Gursky , Candida Höfer , Axel Hütte , Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, she is one of Bernd Becher's first students at the Düsseldorf Academy, which later became legendary as the Becher School . In 1985 she completely stopped taking photos and worked from 1985 to 1995 in a Cologne photo agency to earn a living. In 1997 Tata Ronkholz died at Kendenich Castle near Cologne.

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Tata Ronkholz's early work is characterized by a strict, constructivist style. Even before she began studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher in 1978, she took the first black and white photos of industrial doors, which she took with a plate camera exclusively in the winter months so that vegetation would not obscure the structure of the doors. In addition to the motif of the industrial gates, Tata Ronkholz devoted herself above all to 3 other groups of works - numerous photographs were taken on the topics of drinking halls and shop windows as well as the Düsseldorf Rheinauhafen, which Tata Ronkholz also recorded in her carefully managed archive books. She began documenting the Düsseldorf Rheinauhafen in 1978, on behalf of and in collaboration with Thomas Struth, from whose collection the Düsseldorf City Museum bought 82 works in 1981 . When Thomas Struth had to interrupt his photographic work in 1980, Tata Ronkholz devoted himself to the interior of the port. Similar to the drinking halls that were built later, Ronkholz realized a photographic archiving of industrial buildings. The transience of the motifs was important to her: "This wonderful world has long since ceased to exist. I wanted to capture it before everything was torn down and gone." The most extensive group of works is that of the drinking halls. Tata Ronkholz found her motifs in Düsseldorf, Bochum and Cologne as well as in other places in the Ruhr area. She emphasized: "I was not interested in a social aspect or the design, but felt drawn to everyday life. I wanted to show the little booth around the corner in all its amiability." Her "shop windows", which Tata Ronkholz photographed before she gave up her independent photographic activity in 1985, probably arose from this need.

Van Ham Art Estate in Cologne has been looking after the photographer's estate since 2001. This contains all aspects of her photographic oeuvre and includes prints, contacts and all negatives as well as parts of her correspondence and drafts of her later interior design work.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1978 PS 1, New York (New Yorker Strassen)
  • 1980 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (BeauGrenelle - a modern residential area in Paris)
  • 1981 Rheinhafen Düsseldorf . Tata Ronkholz and Thomas Struth. City Museum Düsseldorf
  • 1982 Münster State Museum
  • 1984 Tata Ronkholz. Photo images, photo documentation Rheinhafen Düsseldorf - interiors . Galerie Linie, Moers
  • 1985 Tata Ronkholz. Photo images . Imago Gallery, Cologne
  • 2001 photographs 1978–1985 . Van Ham art auctions
  • 2001 Tata Ronkholz. Photographs . Berinson Gallery
  • 2002 Tata Ronkholz. "from the photographic work" , photo works 1978 - 1986, Galerie Schröder and Dörr, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2006 Tata Ronkholz. "von Büdchen and other shops" , Gallery Schröder and Dörr, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2016 drinking halls and more. Tata Ronkholz . Museum DKM Duisburg

Group exhibitions

  • 1979 in Germany. Aspects of contemporary documentary photography in Germany . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1979 highlights. Young art from the Rhineland . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1980 ERG Gallery, Brussels (with Thomas Schütte and Achim Tiffert)
  • 1980/81 AÖFS touring exhibition in Munich, Zurich, Essen, Cologne etc.
  • 1982 Work by Young Photographers from Germany . Art Galaxy, New York
  • 1983 22 women photographers. A cross-section of contemporary photography
  • 1983 GEDOK photo exhibition in the Hahnentorburg in Cologne
  • 1984 22 women photographers . The Gedok in the gallery at Schloss Brühl
  • 1984 Photo-Art NRW . Soest u. a.
  • 1988 Düsseldorf photographers . Eller station, Düsseldorf
  • 2002 Joachim Brohm. Bonus: Tata Ronkholz . Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
  • 2003 Lubo Laco, Maria Maier, Harold Chapman and Tata Ronkholz. Photography . Art museum in the Alte Post Mülheim
  • 2004 best of - a look at the collection . Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • 2011 The red Bulli. Stephen Shore and Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie . NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
  • 2014 Backdoor Fantasies . KAI 10 - Room for Art, Düsseldorf
  • 2016 The typological view - exhibition for Hilla Becher . Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • 2017 photographs become pictures. The cup class . Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2017 The Power of Images. A selection of photographs on industry work . MAST Foundation, Bologna
  • 2018 Bernd, Hilla and the Others . Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
  • 2018 Doing the Document. Photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart - The Bartenbach donation . Museum Ludwig, Cologne

literature

  • Kunstforum International Vol. 32, 1979.
  • Klaus Honnef, Wilhelm Schürmann: In Germany. Aspects of contemporary documentary photography , exhibition cat. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Mönchengladbach 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0486-2 .
  • Kunstforum International Vol. 40, 1980.
  • Kunstforum International Vol. 41, 1980.
  • Camera Photo Magazine Volume 59, No. 5, May 1980.
  • Düsseldorf photographers , exhibition cat. Eller station, Düsseldorf 1988.
  • Dusseldorf. City and Harbor , ed. from the city ports of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1988
  • Werner Lippert, Christoph Schaden (ed.): The red Bulli. Stephen Shore and Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie , exhibition cat. NRW Forum, Düsseldorf 2011.
  • Martin Engler (ed.): Photographs become images. The cup class , exhibition cat. Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7774-2773-7 .

Works are represented in the following collections

  • Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • Art museum in the Alte Post, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • City Museum Düsseldorf
  • Landschaftsverband Rheinland - Landesmuseum Bonn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tata Ronkholz at van-ham.com, accessed on May 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ https://www.staedelmuseum.de/de/fotografien-haben-bilder
personal data
SURNAME Ronkholz, Tata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ronkholz, Roswitha (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1997
Place of death Hürth - Kendenich