Born in Glogau, Germany, 1942, Schutz obtained a BA(FA) Honours and MA(FA) Natal University, Durban in 1982. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1984, the Cape Town Triennial Gold Medal in 1988 and represented South Africa in Chile and in Morocco at official presentations. He taught at major tertiary educational institutions including the Technikon Natal and the University of the Witwatersrand, and maintained fully equipped sculpture studios at Wits and in KwaZulu-Natal up to the last three months of his life. His preferred medium was wood but he also worked frequently with Malcolm Christian at Caversham Press, re-creating his 3 D images into graphics that had a simplicity of their own.