Summer Exhibition 2009

Rudolf Helmut Sauter 1895 - 1977

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Known as R H Sauter, Rudolf was a painter, printmaker, illustrator and poet, son of the artist George Sauter. He was educated at Harrow School, studying art in London and Munich, his father having come from Bavaria.

He had strong literary interests, being a member of the writers' club PEN; he illustrated a definitive edition of works by his uncle John Galsworthy. 

He showed at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Pastel Society, in the provinces, at the Paris Salon where he gained an Hon. Mention, and widely in the United States. Had one-man shows in London and New York. Sauter’s work is mainly figurative. 

Many of Sauter's paintings were destroyed by a fire in the 1980s but National Portrait Gallery, Government Art Collection, Royal Watercolour Association and Ferens Art Gallery in Hull hold his work.

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