Ruth Hallensleben
Cologne (Germany), 01.07.1898 - Cologne (Germany), 28.04.1977
Between 1931 and 1934 she worked as an apprentice for the famous portrait and landscape photographer Elsbeth Gropp. In 1934, she opened her own studio. After training in portrait photography, she took up her predestined role as an industrial photographer. Her work is not only a poetic vision or a technical experiment but is also a testimony to the historical period she lived in, Germany during the 20th century. Very little room is left to individualism in the name of a more global vision. In 1945, fearing that the allied forces would confiscate all her photographic equipment and archives, she put all this material in three boxes which she buried in the forest of Wiehl. Three years later, two of the three boxes were found with their contents undamaged and she was able to resume her photographic activity.
ARTWORKS
LIBRARY
EXHIBITIONS
Araltankstelle, 1950s
21.1 × 29.8 cm
Untitled, 1950s
23.3 × 17.7 cm
Meister in einer Schuhfabrik lehrt den Lehrling Leder schneiden
19 × 17.7 cm
Untitled
16.2 × 16 cm
Untitled, 1950s-60s
21.7 × 17.5 cm
Serie: Isolatoren-Herstellung
Der Keramiker findet in de Isolatoren-Herstellung ein reiches Betätingungsfeld
23.5 × 17.3 cm
Siegerländer Industrie, 1950 ca
20 × 17.3 cm
Wellblechgarage, 1950s
29,1 × 21 cm
Scholle
29 × 21.7 cm
Untitled
16 × 23.8 cm
Erz-Aufbereitung, 1940s
19,6 × 17,1 cm
Untitled
29 × 21 cm
Industrial Image #21, 1930/40
12,4 × 8,6 cm
Idustrial Image #18, 1930-40
13,3 × 10,5 cm
Hilgers Tank Transport, c1930s-1940s
11 × 16,1 cm
Large Pipe Section, c1930s-40s
11,75 × 15,5 cm
HOLZSTAPEL
21,9 × 17,4 cm
INDUSTRIEWASSER - BLICK IN EINEN
(Industrial Sprinkling System), 1950s
20 × 17,5 cm
UNTITLED, 1930s
15.3 × 22 cm
RUHRLAND AM ABEND, 1940s
38 × 27,5 cm
SPUREN IM FELD, 1950s
20,5 × 17,2 cm
UNTITLED, 1930s
11.2 × 16.8 cm
Industrial Container, 1930s-1940s
15,2 × 21,9 cm
Untitled
60 × 49.5 cm
GELSE BAY BENZIN KRAKTIM, 1956 ca
22 × 17 cm
Untitled
16,5 × 16,5 cm
Herstellung einers Isolators
59.3 × 49.8 cm
BP
50 × 59.5 cm
Untitled
23.2 × 17.4 cm
Exterior Building Pipes, 1930s-1940s
12,1 × 16,5 cm
Pipes and Tanks in Warehouse, 1930s-1940s
15,2 × 21,9 cm
Industrial Image , 1930
12,1 × 17,5 cm
Industrial Image ＃20, 1930
11,1 × 16,4 cm
Untitled, 1938
22,4 × 17 cm
Untitled, 1938
23.5 × 17.3 cm
Eisenwerk Freilautern, 1938
vintage gelatin silver print
29.2 × 21.4 cm
Untitled, 1939
28.8 × 23.5 cm
Im... (da decifrare), 1940
22.7 × 17.1 cm
BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION. RE-BUILDING OF THE GUEULE VALLEY VIADUCT, 1940
22 × 17 cm
Kleiderfabrik, 1941
26.9 × 23.4 cm
Maschinenfabrik, 1941
23,2 × 17 cm
Erzbergbau Barbara, bückeburg drahtzieherei, 1942
21.7 × 17.6 cm
Siegerländer Industrie, 1942
22 × 16.6 cm
Untitled, 1949
Gelatin silver print
16 × 16.3 cm
Untitled, 1949
23 × 17,5 cm
Siegerländer Industrie, 1950
22 × 17 cm
WASHING MACHINES, 1951
19.8 × 16.5 cm
Siegerländer Industrie , 1951
22.9 × 17 cm
walzengießerei - Siegerländer (controllare), 1951
21.8 × 17.1 cm
SIEGERLANDER INDUSTRIE, 1951
22,1 × 17,1 cm
UNTITLED, 1952
Gelatin silver print
23 × 17,5 cm
Kokereibatterien, 1953
22,4 × 16,7 cm
Siegerländer Industrie, 1953
22.9 × 15.6 cm
Zeche Nordstern, Industriegebiet, Rürh, 1953
23.3 × 17.5 cm
(on the verso), 1953
23.3 × 17.4 cm
Zeche Nordstern, Industriegebiet, Rürh, 1953
23.5 × 17.7 cm
Zeche Nordstern, Industriegebiet, Rürh, 1953
20.9 × 16.3 cm
CHEMISCHE WERKE HOLLAND, 1954
22,5 × 16,5 cm
Untitled, 1954
14.4 × 23.5 cm
Untitled, 1954
17,6 × 21 cm
TAPETENMUSTER, FA. PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1955
23.4 × 17.4 cm
KRAFTWERK KNEPPER, 1955
17,7 × 23,2 cm
Zeche Prinz Regent Bschum (controllare), 1955
23.3 × 17.7 cm
Untitled, 1956
23 × 30.3 cm
TAPETENFABR. PIC (NON LEGGIBILE) & SIEBERT, 1956
23.4 × 17.7 cm
TAPETENFABR. PIC (NON LEGGIBILE) & SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23.7 × 17.7 cm
Rheinpreussen (seconda parola illeggibile), 1956
23.9 × 17.57 cm
TAPETENFABR. PIC (NON LEGGIBILE) & SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23.5 × 17.7 cm
Rheinpreussen, 1956
23.2 × 17.6 cm
PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23.8 × 17.6 cm
PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23.4 × 17.6 cm
TAPETENMUSTER, FA. PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23,4 × 17,4 cm
TAPETENMUSTER, FA. PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1956
23,4 × 17,4 cm
Untitled, 1956
23.5 × 17.4 cm
Inneres eines modernen Kühlturmes, 1957
23,1 × 17,6 cm
TAPETENMUSTER, FA. PICKARDT + SIEBERT, GUMMERSBACH, 1959
23,8 × 17,9 cm
(on the verso), 1963
22.1 × 17.7 cm
Studio, 1964
23.2 × 17.3 cm
Ruth Hallensleben
Belichtete Geschichte
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung Oberberg der Kreissparkasse, Köln, Germany, 1993

pages 109
first edition
dimensions 31.5 × 27 cm, hardcover
language German
ISBN 3-88265-185-7
Ruth Hallensleben
Industiephotographie
Hitzegrad Wuppertal, Germany, 1963

pages 48
first edition
dimensions 25.7 × 21 cm, softcover
language German
Ruth Hallensleben
Frauenarbeit in der Industrie: Fotografien aus den Jahren 1938-1967
Dirk Nishen Verlag, Berlin, DE, 1985
Kah Jagals, Rolf Sachsse, Ursula Peters, Klaus D. Kuhnekath-Spahn
pages 157
first edition
dimensions 20 × 16.5 cm, softcover
language German
ISBN 9783889406026
Ruth Hallensleben
Niederrhein
Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munchen / Berlin, DE, 1962
Hartwig Beseler
pages 252
dimensions 25.5 × 18.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language German
Ruth Hallensleben
Düsseldorf
Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munchen / Berlin, DE, 1977
Anna Klapheck
pages 252
dimensions 25.5 × 18.5 cm, hardcover
language German
ISBN 3422001085
Ruth Hallensleben
C.A. Baldus & Söhne 100 Jahre
Verelag Hoppenstedt & Co., Heppenheim, DE, 1951

pages 50
dimensions 24.5 × 20.2 cm, hardcover
language German