Georges Schreiber was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1904. After studying in Berlin, London, Rome, Paris, and Florence, he moved to New York in 1928 and spent the rest of his life in the United States.

He was a regular contributor to several national magazines and an author and illustrator of several books. Throughout his career, he exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Institute, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the White House Library, the Library of Congress and Bibliotheque Nationale, among others. He earned numerous awards, including the William Tuthill Prize.

Schreiber was employed with the Works Project Administration in 1936. Through his position with the WPA, he visited forty-eight states capturing contemporary American scenes. During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned Schreiber to create paintings to use as posters.

Besides his career as a lithographer, he was also a painter, illustrator, watercolorist as well as a teacher at the New School for Social Research. Schreiber’s work can be found in some of the finest American art museums, and his list of publications is extensive.