George Adomeit
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| George Adomeit | |
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| Birth name | George G. Adomeit |
| Born | 1879 Memel, East Prussia (modern Klaipėda, Lithuania |
| Died | 1967 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Nationality | German American |
| Field | Painting Printmaking |
George Gustav Adomeit (1879 – 1967) was a German-born 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.
Adomeit was born in Memel in Germany (now Klaipėda in 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).
[edit] Notable collections
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
[edit] References
- ^ "George G. Adomeit papers, 1880-1968". Research Collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/george-g-adomeit-papers-8645. Retrieved 16 Jun 2011.
[edit] External links
- Ruth E. Adomeit papers, 1907-1958; Adomeit's wife 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
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