Thomas RUFF - Stars (Schellmann 229), Signed grano-lithograph

Thomas Ruff : Born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach (Germany), Thomas Ruff is a german photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and developed his photography method of conceptual photograph series. Ruff quotes Walker Evans, Eugène Atget, Karl Blossfeldt, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston as his principal artistic influences. From 2000 to 2005 he taught photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (taking back the Becher's chair). He realized many exhibitions especially in Germany (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden), Italy (Venice Biennale), the Netherlands (Chabot Museum, Rotterdam), Spain, Portugal (Casa de Serralves-Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto), UK (Tate Liverpool), South Corea (Busan Metropolitan Art Museum), Argentina (Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires).

Fondation Frances (France)
The Walther Collection (Germany)
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)
Collection Société Générale (France)
Neues Museum Nürnberg (Germany)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
The Broad Art Foundation (The USA)
Museum Villa Haiss (Germany)
Deutsche Börse (Germany)
The Jumex Collection, México (México)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Kunstsammlung DZ Bank (Germany)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Rubell Family Collection (The USA)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart (France)
Huis Marseille Museum voor fotographie (Netherlands)
MUDAM Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Luwa AG Collection of photography (Switzerland)
Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble (France)
MAC Lyon (Musée d'art contemporain) (France)
Zabludowicz Collection (United Kingdom)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (The USA)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Die Photographische Sammlung - SK Stiftung Kultur (Germany)
Center for Creative Photography (The USA)
SMAK (Belgium)
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA) (Belgium)
FRAC Franche-Comté (France)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
FRAC Ile de France (France)
FRAC Bretagne (France)
Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany)
FRAC Basse Normandie (France)
Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada)
Julia Stoschek Collection (Germany)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Det Nationale Fotomuseum Copenhagen (Denmark)
Essl Museum (Austria)
MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (Spain)
Städelmuseum (Germany)
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Germany)
FRAC Aquitaine (France)
UBS Art Collection (Switzerland)
Artium (Spain)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (The USA)
H+F Collection (Netherlands)
ING Bank Art Collection (Netherlands)
Kunstsammlung EPO (Germany)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation (Austria)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
Nomas Foundation (Italy)
Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Germany)
Maison Européenne de la photographie (France)
BESArt Collection (Banco Espirito Santo) (Portugal)
Castello di Rivoli (Italy)
Ellipse foundation (Portugal)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Borusan Contemporary Art Collection (Turkey)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Israel Museum (Israel)
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (France)
Fonds départemental d'art contemporain de Seine-Saint-Denis (France)
Collezioni Berlingieri (Italy)
Belgacom art collection (Belgium)
Sprengel Museum (Germany)
KPN Collection (Netherlands)
Colección fotográfica de Fundación Televisa (México)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
Arthur de Ganay collection (Germany)
Teutloff Photo + Video Collection (Germany)
Colección Los Bragales de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain)
Caldic Collectie B.V. (Netherlands)
Fundación Rac (Rosón Arte Contemporáneo) (Spain)
Colección Ordoñez - Falcón (Spain)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
CGAC - Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Hamburger Bahnhof (Germany)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Spain)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (The USA)
The Wadsworth Atheneum (The USA)
Harn Museum of Art (The USA)
SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen (The Schaufler Foundation) (Germany)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma (Spain)
The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (Spain)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
The Henry Buhl Collection (The USA)
Musée de La Roche sur Yon (France)
Sammlung Falckenberg (Germany)
Benesse Art Site Naoshima (Japan)
Mary-Kate Olsen art collection
FRAC Rhône-Alpes (France)
Hall Art Foundation (The USA)
The Rachofsky Collection (The USA)
Munich Re Art collection (Germany)
Sammlung Viehof