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Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)

A British European Airways Vickers Viscount being serviced

SKU: 8533
Watercolour
18 x 27 1/2 in. (45.7 x 70 cm)
Presentation:
folio

Size:
Height – 45.7cm x Width – 70cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Family

Sauter was passionate about flight. Throughout his career he  produced a series of watercolours inspired by aerial views with rushing perspectives and paintings of various aeroplanes on the ground.  He often took artistic license adapting certain details of the aeroplane design.  In his watercolour of the British European Airways Vickers Viscount there are no windows showing.


British European Airways Vickers Viscount in the ‘old’ livery (red rather than dark blue).
Vickers Viscounts entered service in 1953, having first flown in 1948, and the Type was a mainstay of many airline fleets for the next 25+ years.  British Airways, which had absorbed BEA, withdrew the Viscount in the early 1980s, but some foreign airlines coninued to use it into 21st century.  The last commercial flights are believed to have been in 2007/2008.
We are grateful to Andrew Cormack for his assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Rudolf Sauter
Rudolf
Sauter
1895 - 1977

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, daughter 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.

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