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 Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ...

company that was bought by the Fetter Printing Company in 1955.

Biography

Adomeit was born in Memel, Germany (now

Klaipėda Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capi ...

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), but at the age of four he moved with his family to

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

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, 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. His paintings include ''Down to the Harbor'' (1925). His daughter was the book collector

Ruth E. Adomeit Ruth E. Adomeit (January 30, 1910 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer, editor, collector of miniature books and philanthropist. Life Adomeit was educated at Wellesley College, where she began her interest in miniature books after her f ...

Notable collections

* Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

References

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Adomeit, George 1879 births 1967 deaths People from Klaipėda 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States Artists from East Prussia Cleveland School (arts community) 20th-century American printmakers 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists