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Conrad Ruf (born August 27, 1840) was a German photographer.

Life
Conrad Ruf was born on August 27, 1840 in Breingau. was the son of the watch dealer Andreas Ruf and his wife Johanna Bartmann. He began his career as a lithographer at the age of 21. At the age of 24, he gave for the first time as a job title "photographer". From 1865 the name "Ruef, Conrad" is listed in the directory "after professional transactions" among photographers in the address book. It is not known to whom and how he learned the craft of photography. Since he did not initially have space for his own studio, it is not known where he made portraits at the time. For the years 1868 and 1869 Conrad Ruf is not listed in the Freiburg address book. From the year 1871 he ran his studio with the painter Alexander Dilger (1826-1906) under the name "Ruf & Dilger". From 1874 was for a long time the address "Ludwigstr. 2 ", which is why there could have been premises for a photographic studio there. Dilger, the half-brother of the painter Carl Heine, had founded a studio in Lichtental (Baden-Baden) in 1865 and later relocated it to Freiburg. The cooperation with Dilger was finished in 1884. The Atelier "Ruf & Dilger" was awarded in 1881 the title "Hofphotograph" by the Grand Duke of Baden. The premises in the Ludwigstraße 2 entertained Conrad Ruf beyond the year 1908. Around 1899 he moved to additional studio space in the Kaiserstraße 5 (today: Habsburgerstraße), where he had moved a few years earlier a private apartment. This house was built in 1886 by Friedrich Ploch. C. Ruf was a member of the "Association for the Care of Photography and Related Arts in Frankfurt a.M." and since 1885 in the "Photographic Society" in Vienna. From 1911 his son Konrad Theodor Ruf (1870-1940) continued the business. His mother Josepha, nee Ruh, had married Conrad Ruf on 18 March 1869 in Breitnau or Freiburg. He died in 1922 in Freiburg im Breisgau.