Georg Salter was born in
Bremen, the child of a Hamburg musician. In the year of his birth, his parents converted from Judaism to Christian faith. With his parents and three siblings he moved to Berlin. After finishing school and serving in the military, he studied in the art craft school in Berlin. 1921, he began work as set designer. Starting in 1927, he started working as designer for the publisher
Die Schmiede. Salter taught at the Municipal Art School in
Berlin in the early 1930s, where he taught designer
Hans Barschel. In November 1934 Salter emigrated to the US and started living in New York, where he immediately began to design book jackets for US publishers. He became an American citizen in 1940. Salter was married to Agnes O'Shea and had one daughter, Janet. He died in
New York City on October 31, 1967. == Literature ==