George Gustav Adomeit (15 January 1879 – 1967) was a

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

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and

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, and also co-founder and long-time president of the Caxton Company, a

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

Biography

Adomeit was born in Memel, Germany (now

Klaipėda Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuan ...

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

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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 The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

, Cleveland, Ohio

References

External links

Ruth E. Adomeit papers, 1907-1958
Adomeit's daughter donated her papers in 1978 to the Smithsonian

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Biography
on the

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 Cleveland Public Library, located in Cleveland, Ohio, operates the Main Library on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland, 27 branches throughout the city, a mobile library, a Public Administration Library in City Hall, and the Ohio Library for the ...

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