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.