Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997) was a German photographer.
Ronkholz was born in 1940 in
Krefeld
Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...
, Germany.
She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Krefeld and the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
In Düsseldorf she was taught by
Bernd Becher.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
,
,
the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...
,
and the
Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
References
1940 births
1997 deaths
20th-century German photographers
20th-century German women artists
People from Krefeld
German women photographers
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