Sommer, William

Sommer, William, 1867-1949, American painter and lithographer, b. Detroit. He was apprenticed as a lithographer and studied drawing with Julius Melchers in Detroit and drawing and painting in Munich. He settled near Cleveland. After years of painting part-time in addition to his work in lithography, he developed in the 1920s a highly personal style, which fused fine line and sensitive color into intense, evocative visions of rural scenes, children, and still lifes. Working chiefly in watercolor, he made portraits of children that are remarkable and highly original. Among his many works in the Cleveland Museum of Art are The Pompous Boy, Pink Snow, and The Blue Vase.

Sommer is a surname, from the German and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".

It may refer to:

• Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) (born 1943), American academic
• António de Sommer Champalimaud
• Barbara Sommer (born 1948), German politician (CDU)
• Bert Sommer (1949-1990), American musician and actor
• Bertold Sommer (born 1937), German justice
• Coleen Sommer (born 1960), American high jumper
• Daniel Sommer
• Elke Sommer (born 1940), German actress
• Eva Dorothea Sommer (later Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg) (1891-1964), the wife of historian Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
• Frederick Sommer
• Giorgio Sommer, XIX century photographer
• Günter Sommer (born 1943), German Jazz musician
• Hans Sommer, Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
• Heinrich Hieronymus Sommer (1804-1861)
• Hilde Sommer (born 1917), German athlete
• Inken Sommer (born 1937), German actress
• Jakob Karl Ernst Sommer (or Carl Sommer) (1911-1981)
• Johann Friedrich Joseph Sommer (1793-1856), lawyer, scientist and publicist
• Johann Jakob Sommer (1850-1925)
• Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881-1952)
• Johannes Sommer (or Summer) (died before 1595)
• Juergen Sommer (born 1969) U.S. soccer goalkeeper
• Manfred Sommer (1933-2007), Spanish comics creator
• Marc Oliver Sommer (born 1962), German manager
• Margarete Sommer (1893-1965)
• Mark Sommer (born 1979), president of Synthetic Entertainment
• Michael Sommer (born 1952), chairman of Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Federation of German Trade Unions)
• Raymond Sommer (1906-1950), French racing driver
• Renate Sommer (born 1958), German politician (CDU)
• Robert Sommer
• Robert Sommer (psychologist)
• Ron Sommer (born 1949), German manager
• Sigi Sommer (1914-1996), German author and journalist
• Theo Sommer (born 1930), German journalist
• Vladimir Sommer
• William Sommer
• Wolfgang Sommer (born 1951), actor, director and author

In fiction:

• Jochen Sommer, Dr. Jochen Sommer, the fictional consultor of the German youth magazine Bravo (so-called Dr. Sommer Team)

See also

• Summer