Johann Georg Valentin Ruths (1825 - 1905)

Johann Georg Valentin Ruths

Johann Georg Valentin Ruths was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a landscape painter.

Ruths painted a variety of natural landscapes, including forests, mountains, plains, desert places and villages. He most often depicted the lower Elbe River, as well as Italian and Swiss vistas. His paintings, imbued with an elegiac mood, are still popular in Germany and are common in galleries and private collections. Some of his famous works are "Evening in the Sabine Mountains", "North German Oak Tree", "The Grave of a Rich Man on the Baltic Coast", "The First Spring Day", "Misty Morning in the Forest" and others.