Joseph Sattler

Joseph Kaspar Sattler (20 July 1867, Schrobenhausen - 12 May 1931, Munich) was a German painter, bookplate artist and Art Nouveau illustrator.

[1] After an apprenticeship as a painter and gilder in Landshut, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and became a free-lance artist.

An old friendship with Léon Hornecker led him to the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg in 1891, where he was briefly retained as a drawing instructor.

Three years later, he designed the "Nibelungenschrift" (a type font).,[3] which was used for his monumental work "Die Nibelungen", displayed at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

[2] In addition to Pan (one of his posters was published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche), many of his illustrations appeared in Simplicissimus.

Joseph Sattler and friend (c.1910)
Bookplate designed for Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg