Cornelis Ruhtenberg

Cornelis Ruhtenberg (November 18, 1923 - 2008) was a Latvian-American painter.

Life Ruhtenberg was born in Riga, Latvia to Hanne Helmsing Ruhtenberg, and Jan Ruhtenberg. She and her two brothers grew up in Latvia, Germany, and Sweden, with the family moving to Berlin in the late 1920s after Jan received a scholarship to Berliner Technische Hochschule. In May of that year, she exhibited 15 paintings at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. before moving to Iowa with her husband, Jules Kirschenbaum, whom she had met in 1952 and who taught at Drake University. In 1954, one of her paintings was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She exhibited art at the Museum of Modern Art three times: in 1955, 1956, and 1962. In 1957 she illustrated a children's book, Straps the Cat, which was written by Claudia Lewis.

Ruhtenberg died in Issaquah, Washington in 2008.

Works Three of Ruhtenberg's works are housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.