Sascha Schneider's artistic talent was already apparent during his school years in Blasewitz. A teacher noticed the boy's great talent - and paved the way for him to attend the Art Academy in Dresden after graduating from high school. After graduating, the hopeful young artist moved into a workshop and began his first presentations (including at the Gurlitt exhibition in Berlin). At that time, the painter and graphic artist Max Klinger was an important friend and supporter to him. He helps Sascha Schneider to make a name for himself in the art scene and to establish himself. A few years later Klinger allows him on top of it a professorship at the art school in Weimar.

Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider, called Sascha, is known mainly as an illustrator of the works of Karl May. For the first time the painter and the writer met in the spring of 1903. Between the two artists quickly developed a fruitful collaboration, as well as a lifelong friendship. Shortly before, the creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand had visited an exhibition by Schneider, which impressed him deeply. He was impressed by the powerful and symbolistic paintings, in which he immediately found himself. From then on, Sascha Schneider took over the design of the adventure and travel novels of his new soul partner (published by Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld). However: Neither the book covers nor the stories were well received by the public. For the residence of Karl May in Radebeul, Schneider incidentally made a huge mural ("The Chodem") - to see in the reception room of the poet.

What was special about Sascha Schneider, a representative of the style of symbolism, was his versatility. He was a first-class graphic artist, painter and draftsman; besides, he produced various sculptures. Furthermore, the artist from Saxony designed several murals: among others in the Florentine Villa Colombaia, in the entrance hall of the State Theater in Weimar as well as in the Buchgewerbehaus in Leipzig (in the Gutenberg Hall). Sascha Schneider's great passion was traveling. He spent a lot of time abroad (especially in France and Italy) and left his creative mark there. In his private life, the self-confident German-Russian, who was born and grew up in St. Petersburg, openly admitted his homosexual disposition. As a result, he is considered today to be a creative pioneer of the gay movement. Although society gradually liberalized and changed around 1900, homoerotic acts still remained punishable by law. Accordingly, his open-hearted love life was not always met with counter-love and understanding. Moreover, his inclination towards his own sex is reflected in his permissive pictorial creations and sculptures. As a result, the focus is often on athletic, naked male bodies. The monumental and revolutionary depictions of Sascha Schneider show not only tender boys, but also strong, powerful guys. For this, he mainly took ancient Greece as a model, but political, religious and mystical themes also appear in his works.