June 1, 1898 in Cologne - April 18, 1977 in Cologne), a German photographer. Hallensleben was the second child of businessman Anton Hallensleben and his wife Philippine, born Mahlendorf. After leaving school in 1914 in Cologne, she graduated to 1915 trained as a teacher in Kassel. After several points, she decided to change jobs in 1929 and worked from 1930 for three years at the Cologne portrait photographer Elsbeth Gropp as an intern. In 1934, she became self-employed. In 1934 she opened her studio in Hansahochhaus and worked until 1943 in Cologne. In 1936 she was inducted into the Society of German Lichtbildner. In 1943 she moved from Cologne to Wiehl around and there again in 1950 in a major studio. One last time she moved her studio in 1961 to Wuppertal-Elberfeld. In 1973, she ended her professional photographic activity. In 1977, she was buried in the cemetery Melaten in Cologne. She was an honorary member of the Federation of Freelance Photo Designers. The focus of Ruth Hallenslebens plant located in the industrial photography. The majority of its industrial images she made on behalf of companies or publishers. There are also important contributions to landscape photography. 1986 photographic estate of Ruth Hallensleben was acquired by the Cultural Foundation Ruhr. It was handed over to the Ruhr Museum 1989 exhibitions. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hallensleben) "...Her work is not only a poetic vision or a technical feat but a testimonial to the historical period in which she lived, 20th Century Germany. Little space is left to individualism in favor of a global vision. Each object she photographs, even when under commission, is represented in relation to a determined space, it is never a simple still life. The atmosphere of a place, a time, of a society, lives in the images of Ruth Hallensleben." http://www.rolla.info/exhibitions/view/4?lang=eng undefined

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