George Gustav Adomeit (15 January 1879 – 1967) was a Prussian-American painter and printmaker, and also co-founder and long-time president of the Caxton Company, a printing company that was bought by the Fetter Printing Company in 1955.
George Adomeit | |
|---|---|
| Born | George Gustav Adomeit 15 January 1879 |
| Died | 1967 |
| Nationality | German American |
| Known for | Painting Printmaking |
Biography
editAdomeit was born in Memel, Germany (now Klaipėda, Lithuania), but at the age of four he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, which became his home and which was where he died in 1967.
Heavily involved in the Cleveland art community, he was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists.[1] His paintings include Down to the Harbor (1925).
His daughter was the book collector Ruth E. Adomeit.
Notable collections
edit- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
References
edit- ^ "George G. Adomeit papers, 1880-1968". Research Collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 16 Jun 2011.
External links
edit- Ruth E. Adomeit papers, 1907-1958; Adomeit's daughter donated her papers in 1978 to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Biography on the Cleveland Museum of Art website, taken from Robinson and Steinberg, "Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 221
- Biography at Art of the Print
- First Snow by George Adomeit at Cleveland Public Library