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The photographer's artistic estate has been managed by VAN HAM Art Estate since 2011. This includes her prints, contacts and negatives as well as parts of her correspondence and designs from her earlier work as an interior desinger. The written estate has also been at the same location since 2011. In
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Ronkholz's early work was characterized by a strict, constructivist style. Even before she began studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher in 1978, she took her first black-and-white photographs of industrial gates, with a plate camera, and only in the winter months so that vegetation did not obscure the
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area. She emphasized: "I was not interested in a social aspect or in the design, but felt attracted to everyday life. I wanted to show the kiosk around the corner in all its charm.” This need of her probably also originated her gallery of “shop windows”, which she photographed before giving up her
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purchased 82 works in 1981. When Struth had to interrupt her photographic work in 1980, Ronkholz devoted herself solely to the interiors of the harbor. Similar to the drinking halls that were built later, she created a photographic archive of industrial buildings. The transience of the motifs was
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important to her, like she stated: "This wonderful world is no longer there. I wanted to capture it before everything was torn down and gone." The most extensive group of her works was that of the drinking halls. Ronkholz found her motifs in
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structure of the gates. In addition to that motif, she also focused on drinking halls, shop windows and Düsseldorf's
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