George Adomeit
George Adomeit | |
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| Born | George Gustav Adomeit 15 January 1879 German American |
| Known for | Painting Printmaking |
George Gustav Adomeit (15 January 1879 – 1967) was a
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
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
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
References
- ^ "George G. Adomeit papers, 1880-1968". Research Collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 16 Jun 2011.
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
- First Snow by George Adomeit at Cleveland Public Library
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