Sascha Schneider (1870 - 1927)

The Shaman, 1901
 Around A Soul
 Gram, 1894-95
 To A Soul

Hypnotism, 1904
 A Reunion, 1900
 Eins is Not! (One thing is Necessary!)
 Perseus and Andromeda, 1924
 Mammon and his Slave, 1896
 Triumph of Darkness, 1896
 A Feeling of Dependence, 1920 (version 3)
 A Feeling of Dependence, 1920 (version 2)

A Feeling of Dependence, 1920 (version 1)
 Illustration for Karl May's "In The Realm Of The Silver Lion 1," 1905
 lllustration for Karl May’s "In The Realm Of The Silver Lion 2," 1904
 Illustration for "In The Realm Of The Silver Lion 3," 1904
 Ilustration for Karl May's "In the Land of the Mahdi 2," 1905
 Illustration for Karl May's "In the Land of the Mahdi 2," 1905
 Illustration for Karl May’s "Von Bagdad nach Stambul," 1904
 Triumph of the Woman, 1920
 Christ In Hell, 1900
 The Anarchist, 1894
 The Extravagant, 1903
 To Freedom, 1894

"Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg in 1870. During his childhood his family lived in Zürich, but following the death of his father, Schneider, moved to Dresden, where in 1889 he became a student at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Kreuzgymnasium). In 1903 he met best-selling author Karl May, and subsequently became the cover illustrator of a number of May's books including Winnetou, Old Surehand, Am Rio de la Plata. A year later in 1904, Schneider was appointed professor at the Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar.

During this period Schneider lived with painter Hellmuth Jahn. Jahn began blackmailing Schneider by threatening to expose his homosexuality, which was punishable under § 175 of the penal code. Schneider fled to Italy, where homosexuality was not criminalized at that time. In Italy, Schneider met painter Robert Spies, with whom he traveled through the Caucasus Mountains. He then traveled back to Germany, where he lived for six months in Leipzig before returning to Italy, where he resided in Florence. When the First World War started, Schneider returned to Germany again, taking up residence in Hellerau (near Dresden). After 1918, he co-founded an institute called Kraft-Kunst for body building. Some of the models for his art works trained here.

Schneider, who suffered from diabetes mellitus, suffered a diabetic seizure during a ship voyage in the vicinity of Swinemünde. As a result, he collapsed and died in 1927 in Swinemünde. He was buried in Loschwitz Cemetery, Germany." - quote source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha_Schneider

Image sources include Studio Mariani Gallery, The Karl May Wiki,  The Sale Room, Wikimedia Commons and Mehlis.eu