The Birthday Table by Rudolf Sauter

This is a fine painting by the artist Rudolf Helmut Sauter 1895-1977. The painting is titled The birthday table and is executed in oils on canvas. The painting as been in private hands since it was bought at the Royal Academy in the late 1940s and is in excellent untouched condition. It is signed and dated 1946. Rudolf Helmut Sauter studied art in London and Munich, and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy, the Royal West of England Academy and the Paris Salon. During the First World War Sauter was interned at Alexandra Palace in London and in Frimley in Surrey, where he produced a number of drawings illustrating life in the camp. (His letters describing the conditions in the camp, written to his wife in 1918 and 1919, are today in the collection of the Imperial War Museum in London.)