Rubin Museum

The Rubin Museum is an artist-house-museum in the historical heart of Tel Aviv. Formerly the home of the painter Reuven Rubin, he lived here with his family and worked in his third floor studio from 1946 until his death in 1974. Constructed in 1930, the house on 14 Bialik St. opened to the public in 1983. A choice selection from the Museum's permanent collection of Reuven Rubins' paintings is regularly on display, replaced periodically by guest exhibitions focusing on Israeli art

Reuven Rubin (nee Zelicovici) was born in 1893 in Galatz, Roumania. He painted from childhood and came to Jerusalem in 1912 in order to study at the Bezalel Art Academy. A year later he continued to Paris, then the art capital of the world, in order to pursue his art studies. After W.W.I he traveled to America, exhibited in 1921 in New York and in 1923 returned to Palestine to settle. He was soon recognized as one of the leading pioneer artists in the country. His depictions of the local  landscapes and the people, Arabs and Jews alike, reflect the Zionist enthusiasm of those early years.

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