Frank Paul Sauerwein
1871-1910
BORN IN
Cantonville, New Jersey
KNOWN FOR
Landscape, Indian figure and genre painting
NAME VARIATIONS
Frank Sauerwen, Paul Sauerwen
Born in Cantonville, New Jersey, Frank Sauerwein, during a short lifetime of thirty-nine years, became a specialist of western scene painting including Southwest Indians in their landscape. “Had he not died in 1910, he likely could have become the seventh founding member of the Taos Society of Artists” (‘Frank Paul Sauerwein’, Grauer, Harrison, Holmes).
From the time he was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy, he signed his last name “Sauerwen,” although Sauerwein is the correct spelling.
He was raised in Philadelphia and had his first art lessons from his European trained father, Charles Sauerwein (1839-1918).
