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Rudolf Sauter
(1895 - 1977)
Never More…!
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Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Size:
Height – 86cm
Width – 122cm
Imbued with complex anti-war and religious imagery, Rudolf Sauter’s NEVER MORE…! (a modern Triptych) (oil on panels) was displayed in London’s Arlington Gallery, 3-13 March 1936. It was located in the section of the exhibition entitled “Mad New World,” its center panel entitled “The Reaping,” left panel “The Sowing,” and right panel entitled “The Harvest.” As the Second World War approached, Sauter achieved several more exhibitions as part of burgeoning career. However, none would be as timely and significant as the one in the Arlington Gallery, and none reflected so vividly the fatalism of this public triptych.
Learn more about Sauter in Jeffrey S. Reznick’s landmark study War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life (Anthem Press, 2022).
Painter, printmaker, illustrator and poet. Father was Georg Sauter, an artist from Bavaria. During WW1 Rudolph was interned at Alexandra Palace, (from 1918-19), on account of the fact that his father Georg (who had already been interned in Prison in Wakefield in 1919) was German by birth. His mother was Lilian Galsworthy, sister of John Galsworthy, the novelist and creator of The Forsyte Saga. Rudolph developed strong literary interests and illustrated John Galsworthy’s works. He painted a portrait of Galsworthy in 1927. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Pastel Society. When his work was shown at the Salon in Paris, he was awarded an Honourable Mention. His work was shown widely in the provinces and in America. He had one-man shows in London and New York.
His work is held by the National Portrait Gallery, the RWA and the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. Much of his work was destroyed by a fire in the 1980s. There is a significant collection in private hands in South Africa. Although mostly a figurative painter, late in life he did a series of pastel abstracts. He celebrated his eightieth birthday with a glider flight. He lived at FORT WILLIAM, Butterow, near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
With thanks to artbiogs.co.uk, and Liz Goodacre
