Willi Ruge

♂ *1892-1961 / Germany

Works

Solo exhibitions

Fotoaktuell

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
16 Sep 2017 – 3 Dec 2017

Group

Echt Foto!

Photography between Paper and Pixel / Fotografie zwischen Papier und Pixel

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
4 Dec 2026 – 18 Apr 2027

with Michael Ackerman, Daniel T. Braun, Sofia Crespo, Rodrigo Alcocer de Garay , Marta Djourina, Doerte Eissfeldt, Amin El Dib, Herbert W. Franke, Claus Goedicke, Heinz Hajek-Halke, David Octavius Hill, Atsushi Kakefuda …
Masterworks of Modern Photography (MoMA)

The Thomas Walther Collection

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
14 Sep 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Aurel Bauh, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Arturo Bragaglia, Brassai, Marianne Breslauer …
Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict

200 photographs from the collection of the AMC

Stills Center Photography, Edinburgh (GB)
3 Feb 2018 – 8 Apr 2018

with Eugene Atget, Brassai, Antony Cairns, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Edward S. Curtis, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Mario Giacomelli, Bert Hardy, Guillermo (Wilhelm) Kahlo, Etienne-Jules Marey, Charles Nègre …
A Photo Rarely Comes Alone

Ein Foto kommt selten allein

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
12 Feb 2016 – 5 Jun 2016

with Hans Christian Adam, Dirk Alvermann, Dieter Appelt, Vasco Ascolini, Martin Badekow, Francesca Bertolini, Aenne Biermann, Dieter Blum, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Gerd Bonfert, Richard Boulestreau, Cesare Di Liborio …
Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909-49

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 Dec 2014 – 26 Apr 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Herbert Bayer, Irene Bayer, Blanc & Demilly, Karl Blossfeldt, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Arturo Bragaglia, Constantin Brancusi, Marianne Breslauer, Francis Bruguire …
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
12 Oct 2007 – 13 Jan 2008

with Wilhelm Angerer, Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Ellen Auerbach, Karol Aufricht, Theo Ballmer, Rudolf Balogh, Josef Bartuska, Herbert Bayer, Wladyslaw Bednarczuk, Hans Bellmer, Ernö Berda, Ladislav E. Berka …
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
10 Jun 2007 – 3 Sep 2007

with Wilhelm Angerer, Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Ellen Auerbach, Karol Aufricht, Theo Ballmer, Rudolf Balogh, Josef Bartuska, Herbert Bayer, Wladyslaw Bednarczuk, Hans Bellmer, Ernö Berda, Ladislav E. Berka …
Die Kunst zu fliegen - In Film und Fotografie

NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE)
9 Jul 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

with Ottomar Anschütz, Ilse Bing, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Etienne-Jules Marey, Filippo Masoero, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Felix Nadar, Edward Steichen, Paul Wolff

Events

Outsider Art Fair NY 2026

Outsider Art Fair, New York (US)
19 Mar 2026 – 22 Mar 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Anonymous, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Adolphe Braun, Augusto Cantamessa, Robert Capa, Sheldon Hine, Edward J. Kelty, Mole & Thomas, NASA , Bertram Park, Irving Penn …
Featuring A Singular History of Photography

100 Works from the Stephen White Collection

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
24 Apr 2023 – 26 Apr 2023

with Ansel Adams, Lewis Carroll, Jimmy Desana, Roger Fenton, Adam Fuss, Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Shomei Tomatsu, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand
Photography

Lempertz, Köln (DE)
27 May 2022 – 31 May 2022

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Brassai, Anton Corbijn, Robert Doisneau, T. Lux Feininger, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Man Ray , Tracey Moffatt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Irving Penn
Fotoaktuell

mit Kuratorin und Fotohistorikerin Ute Eskildsen

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)