14 Facts About Georg Sauter

Georg Sauter was a German-English painter, lithographer and draftsman.

In 1880 Georg Sauter began training as a house painter and then worked in Munich with a painter master.

Georg Sauter studied painting from October 1884 in the antic class of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Georg Sauter undertook study trips to Holland, Belgium, France and Italy, then lived in London from 1889 as a painter and lithographer, where he married in 1894 Lilian Galsworthy, the sister of the English novelist John Galsworthy.

Georg Sauter met the American painters Joseph Pennell and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, both of whom became close friends.

Georg Sauter's painting "The Bridal Morning", issued in 1909, won second prize in the Carnegie Art Institute's annual exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but became the cause of a scandal over its erotic mood.

Georg Sauter produced a series of portraits for the Schott family.

At the recommendation of Gerland, Georg Sauter created a series of 30 professorial portraits for the University of Jena between 1922 and 1923, which he executed as charcoal drawings.

Georg Sauter had his residence in Rome at the beginning of the 1930s.

Back in Germany, Georg Sauter settled in 1933 in the artists' colony Brannenburg.

In 1898 Georg Sauter was one of the founders and member of council of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.

Georg Sauter was a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession and the Societe Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels and a member of the Deutscher Kunstlerbund.

Georg Sauter was secondly married to Valda Broad since 1926.

The son Rudolf Georg Sauter was a portrait painter, draftsman and graphic artist.