Leander Russ was an Austrian painter. Leander Russ was in the suburbs of Vienna Mariahilf Nr. 21 (today Amerlingstraße 10), the son of the painter Karl Russ born. His older sister was the artist Clementine Russ (1804-1869). After first lessons from his father Russ studied 1823-1828 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Karl Gsellhofer and Josef Redl d. J. In 1828 he was awarded the Gundel Prize and took at irregular intervals from this year in the annual exhibitions of the academy part. After trips to Munich and Rome , he accompanied in 1833 the orientalist Anton Graf Prokesch-East on a trip to the Orient, which influenced his artistic development greatly. From 1841 he created for Emperor I. Ferdinand peepshow images. 1848 Russ was a member of the Vienna Academy. In the reference books of Death is given in different ways: either the Vienna suburb Rustendorf No. 48 (today Dadlergasse 7) or Kaltenleutgeben in Vienna.. Russ was on Schmelzer cemetery buried in Vienna. 1927 Rußweg was in Vienna- Hietzing named after him and his father. Leander Russ was a painter of Viennese Vormärz and created especially portraits , genre – and history paintings . His favorite technique was watercolor . Very popular were his peepshow images , the representations of public life in Vienna at that time, but also images from the Orient represented.