(St. Petersburg 1870- 1927 Swinemünde) “The Shaman”, monogrammed, dated S.S.1901 and on the reverse inscribed (in the artist’s own hand?) The Shaman, S. Schneider, remains of an old label “Leipziger Kunstverein 475”, oil on canvas, 84.5 x 53 cm, framed, (Rei)

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Hans-Gerd Röder, Sascha Schneider, ein Maler für Karl May, anniversary edition marking the 125th birthday of the painter Karl May, published by Bamberg, 1995 Hans-Gerd Röder has confirmed the authenticity of the work on the basis of a photograph and it will be included in the catalogue raisonné. Letter of authentication issued by Hans-Gerd Röder, dated February 2008, is available.

Excerpt from the letter of authentication issued by Hans-Gerd Röder: The painter and sculptor Sascha Schneider spent his first eleven years in Russia which left a great impression on him. He lived in Dresden from 1884 where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts between 1889 and 1893. He received recognition through exhibitions of his cartoons from 1894 and received several significant commissions for murals. At Karl May’s request, in 1904/05 he designed symbolic title drawings for the author’s works. In 1908 he created murals for the foyer of the National Theatre in Weimar and for the new buildings at the University of Jena. He painted murals for the staircase in the planned new building of the Albertinum in Dresden in 1917. He was professor at the Kunsthochschule in Weimar from 1904 to 1908, afterwards living in Florence until 1914 where he successfully turned to sculpture. After the outbreak of the First World War he returned to Dresden and kept a studio in the Künstlerhaus in Loschwitz.