Carl Broemel

The only son of a master woodcarver from Germany, Broemel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Cleveland School of Art in 1907 as the youngest student ever admitted. Upon graduating in 1909, he went on to study at the National Academy of Art in New York City. In 1935, he was appointed the District Supervisor of the WPA for the Cleveland area where he designed the famous red, white, and blue WPA poster that was used nationwide. He also experimented in abstract painting in the early 1970s, following a trip to the coast of Yugoslavia.