Thomas Ruff

[German Photographer, born in 1958]

• Relationships:	Studied under Bernd Becher.
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
Portrait (Ralph Müller)

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Portrait (M. Roeser), 1999

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Thomas Ruff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Portrait (A. Siekman), 1987 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
2 photographs online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photograph collection online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Portrait (R. Eisch), 1999

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Thomas Ruff in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Portrait

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
w.h.s. 02, 2000

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Telefónica Foundation Collections, Madrid

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Pictures from Image Archives:

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)

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Deutsche Börse Group Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany

The Sender Collection, New York
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UBS Financial Services Art Collection

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with the artist

Tate Magazine
Surface Tension

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