George Adomeit
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.
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George Adomeit
- Name
- George Adomeit
- Birth Name
- George Gustav Adomeit
- Born
- 15 January 1879
- Birthplace
- Memel, East Prussia, Prussia, German Empire
- Died
- 1967
- Place of death
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Known for
- Painting Printmaking
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Languages
- German.
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• Name — George Adomeit • Birth Name — George Gustav Adomeit • Born — 15 January 1879 • Birthplace — Memel, East Prussia, Prussia, German Empire • Died — 1967 • Place of death — Cleveland, Ohio, United States • Known for — Painting Printmaking
Documentary record
George Adomeit lived from 1879 to 1967 and was a lithographer, painter and printmaker. The birth of George Adomeit is recorded in 1879 in Klaipėda, and the death in 1967 in Cleveland.
Biography
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. His paintings include Down to the Harbor (1925). His daughter was the book collector Ruth E. Adomeit.
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1879
George Adomeit was born on 15 January 1879.
1967
George Adomeit died on 22 November 1967.
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Klaipėda.
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• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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