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. 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 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.[1][2][3][4] Rorimer produced furniture in a variety of styles.
[5] The Cleveland Museum of Art holds a silver tea set from the Rorimer Studios in its collection.