[1][2] After graduating from Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he worked as a senior partner at the Manhattan law firm Solinger and Gordon.
[1] He was one of the first lawyers to develop a specialty in advertising, radio and television law and his clients included Louise Nevelson, Hans Hoffman, and Franz Kline.
[1] While trustee he was instrumental in moving the museum to a new facility designed by Marcel Breuer; and in 1973, as president, in the opening of its first branch location in lower Manhattan.
[1] Solinger collected 20th century art and owned works by Klee, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Leger, Miro, Kline, de Kooning, Soulages and Kandinsky as well as a 1927 Picasso, donating many to local museums.
In 1937, he married Hope Alva Gimbel, the daughter of Bernard Gimbel; the couple had two daughters before divorcing in 1978: Faith Solinger Sommerfield and Lynn Solinger Stern Lang.