Franz Ruben
Franz Leo Ruben (born August 16, 1842 in Prague , † December 18, 1920 in Munich ) was an Austrian history , genre and landscape painter .
Life
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
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Ruben, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 205 ( digitized version ).
- Ruben, Franz . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 452 ( digitized version ).
- Ruben, Franz Leo . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 485.
- Ruben, Franz Leo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935.
- Ruben, Franz Leo . In: Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 3: Lacher-Ruprecht . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-83070-113-6 , p. 402.
- Franz Ruben. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988,ISBN 3-7001-1483-4, p. 308.
- Franz Leo Ruben . In: Bärbel Holaus, Elisabeth Hülmbauer, Claudia Wöhrer: Art of the 19th Century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century . Volume 3: L-R . Published by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1998, p. 288.
Web links
- Franz Leo Ruben , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Franz Leo Ruben , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 501
- ^ Julius von Stepski: History and Intrigue. Political experiences from half a century . Luser, Vienna 1940, p. 82
- ^ John W. Barker: Wagner and Venice . University of Rochester Press, Rochester / NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-58046-288-4 , p. 70 ( Google Books )
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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 |