Somewhere in England

The son of the Bavarian portrait painter George Sauter (1866-1937), Rudolf studied art in London and Munich. He became an established figurative painter and had one-man shows in both New York and London. Tragically, much of Sauter's work was destroyed in a fire in the early 1980s. Together with the National Portrait Gallery, the Ferens is one of the few British public galleries to represent Sauter's work. Despite its title, Somewhere in England seems more evocative of other European countries, particularly Holland. Such references are partly due to the extensive travels Sauter undertook throughout Europe, South Africa and later America. It is in the latter that he established a wide reputation as a painter and printmaker.