Walter Georgi was a German painter and illustrator who lived from April 10, 1871, in Leipzig, Germany, to June 17, 1924, in Utting am Ammersee, Germany. He was known for creating portraits of women.

Life and work

When Walter was five years old, his father, Otto Georgi, a lawyer, became the mayor of Leipzig. From 1882 to 1882, he studied at the König-Albert-Gymnasium. In 1890, he began taking classes at the local Academy of Fine Arts and later moved to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Leon Pohle. In 1893, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where his main teacher was Paul Hoecker.

After 1896, he worked for the weekly art journal Jugend and the satirical magazine Simplicissimus. In 1899, he joined a group of artists who formed an organization called "Die Scholle," a term related to farming that sometimes means "homeland." The group denied any connection to patriotism. They later held art exhibitions at the Glaspalast.

He lived in Leipzig, Weimar, and Düsseldorf before settling in Holzhausen am Ammersee, where other members of Die Scholle created an art colony. In 1908, he was named a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, a position he held until 1919. His students included Eva Eisenlohr from Freiburg.

He was also a member of the Deutschen Künstlerbund. In 1912, he joined the Deutscher Werkbund. In 1914, he traveled to Brittany for painting trips and designed twenty-five postcards for the Bahlsen Family baking company. He died at the age of fifty-three in his home in Holzhausen.