Louis Rorimer
{{Short description|American artist and furniture designer (1872–1939)}}
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| name = Louis Rorimer
| birth_date = September 12, 1872
| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio
| death_date = {{death-date and age|November 30, 1939|September 12, 1872}}
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| field = interior design, architectural design, furniture design, decorative arts
| training = Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Académie Julian
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Louis Rorimer (September 12, 1872 – November 30, 1939) was an American artist, an instructor at the Cleveland School of Art, and the founder of Rorimer-Brooks Co.
Life
Louis Rohrheimer was born to Minnie and Jacob Rohrheimer in 1872, the youngest of seven children. At the age of sixteen, Rohrheimer left to study in Europe at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München in Munich and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and Académie Julian in Paris. Rohrheimer returned to Cleveland in 1893, founded Rohrheimer Design in 1896, and taught at the Cleveland School of Art from 1898 to 1936. He married Edith Joseph in 1903, and had two children Louise and James. Rohrheimer changed his name to Rorimer in 1917 due to anti-German and anti-Jewish sentiment. That same year he purchased the Brooks Household Arts Co. and merged it with his own studio to create the Rorimer-Brooks Studios or Rorimer Brooks Co.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cleveland.com/style/2010/01/louis_rorimers_elegant_origina.html|title=Louis Rorimer's elegant, original designs defined public and private places: Elegant Cleveland|last=Theiss|first=Evelyn|date=January 12, 2019|work=The Plain Dealer|access-date=November 26, 2019|orig-year=2010}}{{Cite web|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/r/rorimer-louis|title=Rorimer, Louis|date=May 11, 2018|website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|publisher=Case Western Reserve University|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 26, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.internetantiquegazette.com/furniture/3138_rorimer_brooks_co/|title=Rorimer Brooks Company|year=2013|website=Internet Antique Gazette|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 26, 2019}}{{Cite book|title=Transformations in Cleveland Art: 1796–1946|last=Robinson|first=William|publisher=Cleveland Museum Of Art|year=1996|isbn=978-0940717336|location=Cleveland|pages=166–169}}
Work
Rorimer produced furniture in a variety of styles. He appreciated Art Deco, but as a businessman focused on his clients' tastes. Rorimer displayed 25 articles of furniture at the Cleveland May Show between 1919 and 1926.{{Cite web|url=http://library.clevelandart.org/may-show/artists/rorimer-louis|title=May Show Database|date=|website=Ingalls Library: Cleveland Museum of Art|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 26, 2019}} The Cleveland Museum of Art holds a silver tea set from the Rorimer Studios in its collection.{{Cite web|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.314|title=Coffee and Tea Service c. 1910|date=|website=Cleveland Museum of Art Collections|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 26, 2019}}
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Category:American industrial designers
Category:Artists from Cleveland
Category:Cleveland School (arts community)
Category:Cleveland Institute of Art faculty
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