Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze [commonly known as Sigismund Goetze] was born in London, England on 24 October 1866 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London; and, from 1885 to 1888, at the Royal Academy Schools in London. He subsequently worked as a painter, muralist and decorative artist. Notable among the commissions on which Goetze worked were a mural for the Royal Exchange, London (1898); a series of murals for the Foreign Office in London (1912-1921). Two decorative schemes designed by him were shown in the Exhibition of Decorative Art at the Royal Academy in London in 1923. He first exhibiting in the Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy in 1888 and continued to do so until 1914. He also exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; and at the Paris Salon.