Franz Ruben

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Franz Leo Ruben (born August 16,  1842 in Prague , † December 18,  1920 in Munich ) was an Austrian history , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Venetian rosary turners , 1875
Motif from Venice , 1877
Fishermen in the lagoon , 1891

Ruben was the eldest son of the Imperial and Royal Academy Director Christian Ruben and his wife Susanna, née Dumbser (1819–1903), a landlady from Fraueninsel . His grandfather was the Trier drawing teacher Karl Ruben (1772–1843), his uncle the landscape painter Max Haushofer .

Under his father's directorate, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1859 to 1867 . In 1869 he was awarded the Reichel Prize of the Academy for the painting Leo's X.'s life at the court , after he had already stepped into the public eye at an exhibition in Prague in 1867 with the altarpiece Rose Miracle of St. Elisabeth . From 1868 he lived in Rome to complete his studies . There he was a member of the German Artists' Association from 1868 to 1874 and attended its "Cervaro Festival" in 1869 with his father. In the same year Anton von Werner portrayed him . In 1870 he became a member of the Vienna Fine Arts Cooperative .

From Rome and then from Venice , where he lived with a few interruptions from 1874 to 1914 and was made an honorary member of the Art Academy , Ruben sent mainly the major exhibitions in Vienna. He was awarded medals at the world exhibition in 1873 and at an exhibition in Munich in 1883 . In 1890 he contributed to the Crown Prince's work with sketches .

At the beginning of the First World War , Ruben had to leave Venice. There he had earned great recognition for the coloristic depictions of scenes from the lives of ordinary people and was one of the artists to whom the composer Richard Wagner paid special attention. Ruben created scenes from Wagner's Lohengrin for the Hohenschwangau Castle of the Bavarian King Ludwig II . He spent his old age in Munich, where he died at the age of 78.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Leo Ruben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 501
  2. ^ Julius von Stepski: History and Intrigue. Political experiences from half a century . Luser, Vienna 1940, p. 82
  3. ^ John W. Barker: Wagner and Venice . University of Rochester Press, Rochester / NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-58046-288-4 , p. 70 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Ruben, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruben, Franz Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian history, genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1920
Place of death Munich