406 - Wilhelm Sauter, early self-portrait from 1912 & Kurt Bentz, ‘Girl Combing Her Hair’, 2 framed oil paintings

Wilhelm Sauter, early self-portrait from 1912 & Kurt Bentz, ‘Girl Combing Her Hair’, 2 framed oil paintings Wilhelm Sauter, 1896 Bruchsal - 1948 Göppingen, German painter and draughtsman, shown here: Portrait of a young man, probably a self-portrait at the age of 16, oil on cardboard, 31 x 26 cm, monogrammed and dated ‘12’ on the right-hand side, framed // Kurt Bentz, 1922 - Homburg/Saar - 2006, German painter and well-known representative of post-war art in the Saarland, here: “Girl Combing Her Hair, Painted After My Sister”, oil on cardboard, signed on the right, inscribed by hand on the reverse and bearing an old adhesive label from the Saarland Artists’ Cooperative dating from the late 1940s, framed About the artists. Thanks to his talent, Wilhelm Sauter entered the Heidelberg Teacher Training College in 1913 with the aim of becoming an art teacher. This portrait/self-portrait dates from that period. From 1918 to 1920, he studied at the Baden State Art School. At the instigation of Hans Thoma, his first exhibition took place at the Baden Art Association //Kurt Bentz also studied at the State Art School in Karlsruhe. He subsequently worked as an art teacher in Saarbrücken and was a member of the Saarland Artists’ Cooperative, in whose almanac he was featured as early as 1948 with a short profile. It states that much more would be heard of this master student from the Karlsruhe Academy in the future.