He studied in Geneva's fine arts academy where his teachers, Ferdinand Hodler and Edouard Ravel, deeply influenced his style and interests.

Eduardo Schlageter married a wealthy lady, Carmen Boulton Pietri in March 1929, and four children were born from that marriage.

In 1942 he traveled to the Marcy Gallery in New York as representative of a Venezuelan art committee and exhibited his creations, gaining considerable prestige.

In 1950 he suffered a heart attack and after this, all the years through he travelled to the thermal baths in Bad Gastein, Germany, where he kept creating more waterpaintings.

After he retired in 1963 from the general directive of the family company, he kept traveling to Germany frequently and having exhibitions both in Venezuela and in Europe about his paintings.