Michael Ruetz

(1940-2024)

Dangast 28. Januar 1973
Pigmentprint auf Hahnemühle
ca. 42 x 60 cm
Aufl. 7

1940	Born in Berlin / DE
	Studied Sinology, with Japanology and Journalism as subsidiary subjects, in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin.
1969–1973	Member of the Stern editorial in Hamburg
After 1974	Self-employed and works as a freelance author and photographer / Several publication projects
1975	Ruetz graduates as external student from the Folkwang Hochschule Essen
Since 1981	Ruetz is a contract author for publishers Little, Brown & Co./New York Graphic Society, Boston, Massachusetts
1982–2005	Professor of Communication Design at the Braunschweig University of Art and taught Photography
2002	Ruetz organised a major retrospective of German photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke in Centre Pompidou, Paris.
	Ruetz lived in Italy, Australia and the U.S. for 12 years
Current	Lives and works in Berlin / DE

1966–1969	Kodak Photobook Prize for Auf Goethes Spuren (In Goethe’s Footsteps), Necropolis, APO/Berlin and Land der Griechen (Land of the Greeks).
1969	German Design Prize
1979	Schönstes Buch der Schweiz for Mit Goethe in der Schweiz (With Goethe in Switzerland)
	Otto Steinert Prize
1981	Villa Massimo Prize
2002	Ordre des Arts et Lettres