George Oberteuffer (1878–1940) was an American painter and educator born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton University in 1900 before pursuing formal art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied alongside artists such as Thomas Anschutz and William Merritt Chase. In 1901, Oberteuffer traveled to France to study, paint, and teach, remaining there until 1920. While at the Académie Julian in 1905, he met his future wife, Henriette Amiard, with whom he often exhibited, creating a mutually supportive artistic partnership.

During his time in Paris, Oberteuffer became a member of the Sociétaire du Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendents and taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from 1919 to 1920. Returning to the United States in 1922, he held teaching positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Minneapolis School of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Grand Central School of Art in New York. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1939. 

In 1940, while living in Boston, the Vose Gallery held a family exhibition featuring George, Henriette, and their son Karl. Shortly thereafter, while working on a large W.P.A. mural commission with his wife, Oberteuffer contracted pneumonia and passed away, marking the end of a distinguished career as both an artist and educator.