George Adomeit
George Adomeit | |
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| Born | George Gustav Adomeit 15 January 1879 |
| Died | 1967 |
| Nationality | German American |
| Known for | Painting Printmaking |
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.
Biography
Adomeit 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). George Adomeit was both a talented Impressionist painter and one of the best printers of art exhibitors catalogues in the country. Adomeit didn't paint professionally. By and by, he painted a critically acclaimed collection of artwork and shown it all through the country. An annual collaborator of the May Show at the Cleveland Gallery of Workmanship, he prevailed upon twelve awards there from 1923 to 1946. Adomeit also rendered his canvas at Cleveland Under Snow (n.d.) is a fine illustration of plein-air painting and a rich presentation of the kind of brushwork promoted by Duveneck, Henri, and Howls.[2]
His daughter was the book collector Ruth E. Adomeit.
Notable collections
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
References
- ^ "George G. Adomeit papers, 1880-1968". Research Collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 16 Jun 2011.
- ^ "Ohio Impressionists and Post-Impressionists; essay by James M. Keny". tfaoi.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
External links
- 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
- An article Ohio Impressionists and Post-Impressionists by James M. Keny posted on TFAO Resource Library of American Fine Arts History
- First Snow by George Adomeit at Cleveland Public Library
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- 1879 births
- 1967 deaths
- People from Klaipėda
- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American painters
- German emigrants to the United States
- People from East Prussia
- Cleveland School (arts community)
- 20th-century American printmakers
- 19th-century American male artists
- 20th-century American male artists