Georg Sauter

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Portrait of Georg Sauter 1907

Georg Sauter (born April 20, 1866 in Markt Rettenbach ( Unterallgäu district ); † December 20, 1937 in Brannenburg am Inn) was a German painter, lithographer and draftsman.

Life

Georg Sauter learned the profession of a painter and then worked for a master painter in Munich. He later took drawing lessons. He studied painting from October 15, 1884 in the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Here he was a student of the landscape painter Ludwig von Löfftz and received further suggestions from the portrait painter Franz von Lenbach .

Georg Sauter went on study trips to Holland, Belgium, France and Italy, then lived from 1889 as a painter and lithographer in London, where he married Lilian Galsworthy (1864–1924), the sister of the writer John Galsworthy . Sauter came into a circle of artists around the painters Hubert Herkomer , John Lavery and George Frederick Watts , the author Joseph Conrad and the poet John Masefield . He also met Joseph Pennell and the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler , both of whom became his close friends. His works show the influence of James Whistler. In 1898 he joined these and other artists in founding the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers . His painting "The Bridal Morning" (The Bridal Morning), exhibited in 1909, won the second prize in the annual exhibition of the Carnegie Art Institute in Pittsburgh , but became the cause of a scandal because of its erotic mood.

At the beginning of the First World War , Sauter, although married to an Englishwoman, was interned in Alexandra Palace as an enemy alien in 1916 and later expelled. First he went to Jena. Here he had support from the families of the glass industrialist Otto Schott and his son-in-law Heinrich Gerland , lawyer and professor at the University of Jena. The friendship with the Gerlands began in 1906 when Gerland, accompanied by his wife Eva, went on a study trip to England and met the artist there. Sauter made a series of portraits for the Schott family. A series of 30 professor portraits for the Jena University, which he executed as charcoal drawings, was also created through Gerland's mediation between 1922 and 1923. Georg Sauter was made an honorary citizen of the University of Jena in 1936 for his work.

Sauter had his residence in Rome at the beginning of the 1930s. During a stay in Cologne in 1930/31, Sauter portrayed Cologne's Lord Mayor Konrad Adenauer and his second wife Gussi. Adenauer then recommended him to other acquaintances, including a. the industrialist Carl Duisberg : "He draws the heads of men who interest him and combines these drawings into a collection". Back in Germany, Sauter settled in the Brannenburg artists' colony in 1933.

Georg Sauter was a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession and the Société Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels as well as a member of the German Association of Artists .

The Leeds Picture, 1908

Georg Sauter's second marriage from 1926 to the Englishwoman Valda Broad († 1937). The son Rudolf Sauter (1895–1971) also became a well-known painter, draftsman and graphic artist. He illustrated a. a. the works of his uncle John Galsworthy.

"Industry, too, has inspired George Sauter to one of his finest works" The Leeds Picture "[...]. This canvas, very different in subject from those he is best known by, symbolizes the homage of Labor to Beauty, to whom the products of local industry are offered by attendant females, and is certainly one of the most harmonious and complete pictures that the artist has produced. "

“The industry also inspired George Sauter to write one of his best works,“ The Leeds Picture ”[…]. This canvas, very different from those for which it is best known, symbolizes the homage to the work to the beauty that the products of the local industry are offered by accompanying women and is certainly one of the most harmonious and complete images that the Artist made. "

- Abel Torcy : In: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art.

Honors

  • Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , Austria (Commander)
  • Knight of the Order of St. Michael , 4th class, Bavaria
  • Knight of the Order of the Zähringer Lion , Baden
  • Honorary citizen of the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
  • Several gold medals from international exhibitions
  • Silver medal and thousand dollar prize money from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh
  • Royal Bavarian professor, 1902

Picture gallery

  • The Bridal Morning, 1902

  • Blanche Bailey Galsworthy

  • Ada Galsworthy

  • John Galsworthy

  • Lilian Sauter

  • Maternity

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Sauter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Biography (English)
  • Biography (English)
  • Uni-Journal Jena: A painter visits the Schott family. University of Jena, September 17, 2009 (Georg Sauter exhibition until January 9 in the Schott Villa).;
  • Gabriel von Térey: George Sauter. In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. Volume 22, Issue 11, March 1907, pp. 249–256, images pp. 248 to 259 ( uni-heidelberg.de )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timeline 1933, Neue Künstlerkolonie Brannenburg ( Memento from December 21, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ 00056 Georg Sauter. In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book. Volume 3: 1884-1920. ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  3. ^ A b c David B. Dearinger: Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy of Design , Volume Vol. 1 (1826-1925). Hudson Hills, 2004, ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3 , p. 491.
  4. ^ Albert Boime : Georg Sauter and the Bridal Morning . American Art Journal, New York. 1970. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  5. ↑ Simon Webb: British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900-1975 . Pen and Sword, 2016, ISBN 1-4738-4632-3 , pp. 50-51.
  6. ^ Peter Schäfer: Georg Sauter and his Cologne Adenauer portraits. In: History in Cologne. Volume 55, Issue 1 (December 2008). de Gruyter online, April 3, 2015, p. 245 , accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  7. ^ A b Sauter, Prof. George. In: Who Was Who? - (Oxford Index)
  8. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Sauter, Georg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 7, 2016)
  9. ↑ Abel Torcy: Modern Art in Leeds: The Collection of Mr. Sam Wilson . In: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art . tape 69 , no. 285 . London 1916, p. 111 (English, digitized version of Heidelberg University ). Today the work is in the Leeds Art Gallery .
  10. ↑ Personal and studio news. In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. 17. Vol. 8, 1902, p. 305 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  11. ↑ This painting portrays (Blanche) Lilian Sauter and (her son) Rudolf Sauter as a child. Information from Art-UK
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Rettenbach market
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1937
Place of death Brannenburg