Franz Streußenberger was born in Ried in 1806. He was the first academy painter to settle in Ried. He came from a family of painters and studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Streussenberger was an inventive local exponent of genre painting. 

His picture “Der gefährliche Krebs” (the dangerous crab) depicts his wife Kleopha and his grandson Karl Stockhammer observing the “wriggling beast”.

Franz Streussenberger died in 1879.