Franz Leo Ruben

Franz Ruben was born on 16 August 1842 in Prague. He was the eldest son of the director of the Prague Academy Christian Ruben and his wife Susanna, née Dumbserová (1819–1903).[1] His grandfather was the Trier drawing teacher Karl Ruben (1772–1843), the landscape painter Max Haushofer was his uncle.

Between 1859 and 1867 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1868 he lived in Rome, where he completed his studies. There he was a member of the German Association of Artists (Deutscher Künstlerverein) from 1868 to 1874. In 1870 he became a member of the Society of Austrian Visual Artists (Gesellschaft bildender Künstler Österreichs).

He lived in Venice with several breaks between 1874 and 1914. He mainly exhibited his works in large exhibitions in Vienna, his paintings also regularly appeared at exhibitions in Prague. He had to leave Venice after the start of World War I.

He spent his old age in Munich, where he died on 18 December 1920 at the age of 78.

Franz Leo Ruben often devoted himself to genre painting with Italian themes.

His 1863 painting Portrait of a Man is owned by the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora.[2]

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  Musestunde des Muschelverkäufers
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  Türkisches Kaffeehaus in Sarajevo
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  Vier Damen am Basar von Sarajevo
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  Venetianische Rosenkranzdrechsler (1875)
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  Venezianische Kesselflicker (1872)
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  Venezianisches Treiben (1878)
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  Badende Kinder
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  Campiello delle Mosche, Venice
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  Der Fächerverkäufer (1882)
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  Der kleine Freund (1886)
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  Eine elegante Bootsparty
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  Junge italienische Gemüseverkäuferin
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  Kinder auf der Brücke
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  Motiv aus Venedig (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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  Fischer in der Lagune (1891)
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  Mazzorbo
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  Am Flussufer
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  Ein türkischer Herr
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  Italienische Dorfstraße