Adolphe Weiner Blondheim

Adolphe Blondheim, born in 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland, was a student at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts and later attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1913, he married Rosa DeYoung, niece of writer Gertrude Stein. Blondheim served in the military as part of the Camouflage Corps, 24th Engineers, in 1918. From 1920 through 1930, Blondheim was an educator at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is known for his non-objective art style with oils and watercolors, and his semi-abstract style in his etchings and lithographs. He was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, the New Group and its offspring, the Independents.

During his time as an artist, his work was included in several exhibitions, including the Midwestern Artists' Exhibition held in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1925 and 1926. As an artist, he won many awards and was also awarded the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1910. After several teaching positions in the South and Midwest, Blondheim moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania. His art is displayed at the Missouri State House, and in Bucks County, New Hope, Pennsylvania, as well as at John H. Vanderpoel Art Association in Chicago, Illinois. Adolphe Blondheim died in 1969 in Baltimore.