Tata Ronkholz - Gestaltete Welt ('Designed World', FIRST MONOGRAPH, MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2025

IMPORTANT FIRST AND ONLY RETROSPECTIVE BOOK by highly underrated German photographer
Tata Ronkholz (1940-1997) - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Showing the entire work of the artist.
Showing all her important, exciting series for the very first time in book form.

Published on the occasion of the major exhibition at 'SK Stiftung Kultur' in Cologne in 2025.

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From 1978 to 1985, Tata Ronkholz studied photography under Bernd Becher at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, alongside Volker Döhne, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, she was one of the first students in the Becher class, which later became legendary as the Becher School.
When she died in 1997, in the age of only 57, her work was saved and has since been regarded as ground-breaking in the development of New Objectivity documentary photography.

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'Tata Ronkholz initially studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and then worked as a freelance furniture designer. From 1978 to 1985, she studied photography under Bernd Becher at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, alongside Volker Döhne, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, she was one of the first students in the Becher class, which later became legendary as the Becher School. She stopped working as a freelance documentary photographer in 1985 and worked as a photographer in a Cologne photo agency until 1995. When she died in 1997, her work was saved and has since been regarded as ground-breaking in the development of New Objectivity documentary photography. The subjects she chose for her strict constructivist photography were brittle. In addition to the gates of industrial sites, which she photographed mainly in winter, her pictures focussed on drinking establishments, kiosks and shop windows.
Together with Thomas Struth, she began a collaborative work on the Rhine harbour in Düsseldorf, which was later purchased by the Düsseldorf City Museum. The drinking halls of the Rhineland and Ruhr became her most extensive group of works, in which she was particularly interested in the aspect that these motifs were both everyday and threatened by transience. Since 2018, Tata Ronkholz's estate has been in the care of VAN HAM Art Estate and has been scientifically supported by a committee including Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Head of the Photographic Collection / SK Stiftung Kultur, Stefan Gronert, Deputy Scientific Director of the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Barbara Hofmann-Johnson from the Museum für Fotografie Braunschweig and others.'
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Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 2025. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 241 x 284 mm. 272 pages. 210 photos in colour and Duotone. Photos: Tata Ronkholz. Edited by 'Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur' in cooperation with 'Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf' and 'VAN HAM Art Estate'. Texts: Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Renate Goldmann, Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann, Stefan Gronert, Barbara Hoffmann-Johnson, Cennet Maggiarosa, Julia Reich, Clemens Scheuermann. Text in English and German.

Great German photobook about work and life of Tata Ronkholz - in perfect condition.

Bernhard 'Bernd' Becher (1931-2007), and Hilla Becher, born Wobeser (1934-2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the Düsseldorf School of Photography, they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

The Düsseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.