Gruber Béla was born in 1936 and died in 1963 in Budapest. From 1952 until 1956 he worked in the Ship Factory of Óbuda after which he was accepted to the Collage of Fine Arts. His teachers were the talented Kmetty János and Bernáth Aurél who recognized his talent early on. However, the education system of the 60's rendered the work of the young artist with a firm point of view on art more difficult.

While attending collage, he had to check in a nerve sanatorium. He was not able to show his diploma work titled 'Painting Studio' due to his early death. This is the short life of a talented young man. However, he made more than a 1000 works during his short life. His oeuvre is not open ended but a whole and complete.

His topics were reduced to the scenes of his life, objects of his environment, family members, the analytical representation of himself. He showed his works twice in the wards of the Collage of fine Arts (1964, 1993).

Other exhibitions he held: Thury György Museum (Nagykanizsa, 1969); Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, 1978); The House of Arts (Szekszárd, 1989); Hatvani Gallery (Hatvan, 1990); the Gallery of the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany (Tihany, 2001); Báthory István Museum (Nyírbátor, 2004); Szatmári Museum (Mátészalka, 2004).