Background
Georg Salter was born in Bremen, the child of a Hamburg musician.
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George Salter
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After finishing school and serving in the military, he studied in the art craft school in Berlin.
Career
He revolutionized cover design for books He claimed worldwide fame for his design for Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz. 1921, he began work as set designer.
Starting in 1927, he started working as designer for the publisher Verlag 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 United States and started living in New York, where he immediately began to design book jackets for United States publishers.
He became an American citizen in 1940. He created the covers for Carl Zuckmayers The Moons Ride Over (1937) and William Shirers Berlin Diary (1941), among others
In 1938, he started leading the design department of Mercury Publications, and in the decade that followed, designed 185 book covers and around 30 magazine covers.
Salter was married to Agnes O"Shea and had one daughter, Janet. He died in New York City on October 31, 1967.
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Christian