Valentin Ruths - Artist Info

About Valentin Ruths

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Johann Valentin Georg Ruths
  • Biography

    Landscape, marine and vedute painter and lithographer, Valentin Ruths went to the Munich Academy in 1846, but had to return to Hamburg as early as 1848 when the revolution broke out.

    In 1850, he had lessons with J. W. Schirmer in Düsseldorf and then stayed in Rome.

    The painter, who lived permanently in Hamburg from 1857, was one of the pioneers of German landscape painting and is represented in numerous museums...

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