Ralf Brueck is a German artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

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From 1996 to 2003, he studied at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. Bernd Becher and Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.-Life:...

 were his professors.
He belongs to the younger represents of the Duesseldorf school of photography. His earlier works were more influenced by the connection between the Duesseldorf school of photography and the American New Color Photography. Since 2009 he is moving towards digital image manipulation. 2011 marks the beginning of a new serie called "DISTORTION". The radical editing in that serie also refers to pop cultural icons and is supported by their titles i.e. "Personal Jesus", "Pink Mist", "Transmission" and "You don´t look so good".

Awards

• 2001 Leo Award-Breuer, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
• 2002 Lovell's Arts Award
• 2003 NPT studio scholarship, Moenchengladbach
• 2004 Villa Romana prize
  Villa Romana prize
  The Villa Romana Prize, which has been awarded since 1905, is the oldest German art prize.The Villa Romana was acquired in 1905 by Max Klinger for 60,000 gold liras....
  
  
• 2005 NRW Arts Foundation
• 2005 Artist Exchange Program between Duesseldorf and Tampere, Finland
• 2008 Foundation Art Fund

Solo exhibitions

• 2010 "2010 / 2010" Organhaus Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
• 2009 "ich liebe amerika und amerika liebt mich", Gallery Muelhaupt, Cologne, Germany
• 2009 "betonbar: ralf brueck", Mannheim, Germany
• 2009 "pain is weakness leaving the body", the bakery, Munich, Germany
• 2009 "w", Gallery aplanat, Hamburg, Germany
• 2009 "the good times are killing me", Gallery Pitrowski, Berlin, Germany
• 2008 "que onda guero", galerie januar ev., Bochum, Germany
• 2007 James Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA
• 2006 "...im Ernst (being serious)", Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany
• 2006 "diaschau", theminibar, Duesseldorf, Germany
• 2006 "Finnlandfotos2", tr1, Tampere, Finland
• 2006 "Finnlandfotos1" Goethe Institut Helsinki, Finland
• 2005 NVV scholarship end-exhibition, Mönchengladbach, Germany
• 2002 Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe
• 2000 Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany

Works

• "Ralf Brueck", Heart Breaker Magazine

External links

• Artist's website
• "Ralf Brueck", Conscientious
• "Ralf Brueck", Mrs. Deane
• "Ralf Brueck", artist´s blog