Albert Rubin 1887 - 1956
Boat in Landscape

Boat in Landscape
Oil on cardboard, 45X60 cm, Signed.

About The Artist:

"Few people, if any, have ever heard of Albert (Abraham) Rubin, even though his paintings grace the collections of such major Israeli museums as the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It would be easy to classify him as the "lesser known Rubin", since both he and the now famed painter Reuben Rubin belong to the "Genesis" period of "Boris Schatz's Bezalel". However, for accuracy's sake (albeit at the risk of engaging in a bit of pettiness), it should be noted that Albert Rubin was there before him, having been a member of the first class of Bezalel (1906-1909). Reuben Rubin only arrived in 1912, and studied just a year in Jerusalem."

Dr. Doron J. Lurie, "Albert Rubin, Professor Boris Schatz, and the Inagural Class of Bezalel", Albert Rubin, Beginnings, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Curators: Galia Bar Or and Doron J. Lurie, Summer 2010, p. 74.



Biographical Notes:

July 10, 1887

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria

1900

Graduates elementary school. Due to economic straits of his

family, goes to work as a construction carpenter.

1903

Begins painting and sculpture studies at the Sofia Academy

.of Fine Arts

1905

Founding of competition for selecting the most talented art

student among the Jewish communities of the Balkans.

1906

Albert Rubin wins first prize in the competition. Upon the

recommendation of Boris Schatz, he travels from Bulgaria to

Jerusalem where he enters the inaugural class at Bezalel, and

studies painting and sculpture for three years. His father is

employed as caretaker at the school.

1909

Leaves for Paris, where he attends the Professor Fernand

Cormon art school for seven years.

1914

Admitted for the first time to the annual “Salon” of French

artists. World War I breaks out that same year. After the

war, Rabin will continue to participate in the Paris “Art

Salons” exhibitions.

1915

As part of his military service, Rubin gives drawing lessons to

soldiers of the Franco-Belgian army.

1927

Granted French citizenship. Begins working as graphic artist

and illustrator in the advertising field.

1931

Loses sight of his left eye in an accident

1933

Marriage

1934-9

Living and working in Switzerland

1940-5

During the war, hides with his family in France. Arrested

twice, he escapes both times from his jailers.

May 31, 1956

Albert Rubin killed in a traffic accident in Paris.