Edith Jeanette Soterius von Sachsenheim (1887–1970) was a Transylvanian Saxon painter, who spent part of her career in England and elsewhere in Europe.

Edith's works from this period, e.g. Sitzender Halbakt ("Seated Semi-Nude") or the portrait of her friend Eleanor Garrett-Ward, reflect her ambition to overcome the dated artistic conceptions of the academy.

She was the mother of three children, Editha, Günther and Eva, but the family obligations limited her artistic pursuits for some time.

The marriage did not last; the couple divorced in 1926 and the following year she married her childhood friend, Professor Ludwig Herbert.

This brought on a new phase in her artwork, she gave up any form of modernism and confined herself to a strictly objective, realistic representation of her subject.

In January 1946, her son Günther died and in August the same year she moved with her eldest daughter to Graz, Austria.

Another creative phase followed in 1948, when she produced a series of watercolours in the areas of Graz and on a visit to Zurich, these works are influenced to some extent by her formerly mentioned early encounter with Turner's art.