Ludwig Bemelmans

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Ludwig Bemelmans (April 26, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was an Austrian-born American writer and illustrator of children's books.

He is best known for his Madeline picture books.

Since 1939, six have been published.

Early life

Bemelmans was born in Meran, Austria-Hungary, to Belgian painter Lambert Bemelmans and the German Frances Fischer (now Italy). His father owned a hotel. He grew up in Gmunden, Upper Austria, on the Traunsee. His first language was French and his second German.

Ludwig's father left his wife and his son, both of whom were pregnant with his children, for another woman, who led Ludwig and his brother away from their hometown city of Regensburg, Germany, in 1904. Bemelmans had trouble in school because he feared the German system of discipline. At a hotel in Austria, he was apprenticed to his uncle Hans Bemelmans. In a 1941 New York Times interview with Robert van Gelder, he related that as an apprentice, he was often assaulted and even whipped by the headwaiter. He eventually told the waiter that if he was whipped again, he'd retaliate with a pistol, according to Bemelmans. The headwaiter ignored his warning, whipped him, and Bemelmans were reported to have shot and critically wounded him in revenge. Given the option between reform school and emigration to the United States, he chose the latter. Since Ludwig's uncle was an incorrigible boy, he suggests he choose either going to America (where his father now lives) or going back to reform school, it is likely this was one of Bemelman's most popular yarns.

Personal life

Madeleine "Mimi" Freund, Bemelmans' future wife, is reported to have been a model in Metzl's studio. Barbara Marciano, James Marciano, and John Bemelmans Marciano were among the family's children and grandchildren, as well as Barbara Marciano, James Marciano, and John Bemelmans Marciano.

Bemelmans died of pancreatic cancer in New York at the age of 64, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Writing career

Bemelmans first met May Massee, the children's book editor at Viking Press, who became a sort of partner. He began publishing children's books, beginning with Hansi in 1934. He published the first Madeline book in 1939, but after being rejected by Viking, Simon & Schuster published it. The book was a huge success. Bemelmans did not write a second Madeline book until 1953, when he published Madeline's Rescue. Four more books in the series were later released when he was alive, and one more was released posthumously in 1999.

Pen and ink, water color, and gouache were among the creative mediums he worked in before the 1950s. He had avoided oil painting because it didn't encourage him to produce artistic works in a hurry, as he says in his autobiographical My Life in Art. But he wanted to master the art of oil painting at this moment in his life. To this end, he began to buy a house in Paris that would be used as a full-fledged art studio. In 1953, he fell in love with a tiny bistro in Paris, La Colombe, in the Île de la Cité, and bought it with the intention of converting it into a studio. He painted murals therein, but the venture was a loss due to French bureaucracy, and he unloaded it by offering it to Michel Valette, who turned it into a popular cabaret.

Bemelmans also wrote a number of adult books, including travel, comedies, and books, as well as movie scripts. Yolanda and the Thief were among the former's victims. While spending time in Hollywood, he became a close friend of interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl.

The Bemelmans Bar in New York City's Central Park's Bemelmans Bar is the only public art on sale. Christina Onassis, the young daughter of the magnate, painted the children's dining room on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina (now the Christina O).

When you lunch with the Emperor in 2004, I Love You, I Love You (1942), and Life Class (1937),

"In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines, lived twelve young girls in two straight lines... the smallest one was Madeline." Miss Clavel is caring for the girls. She is most likely a nun, as some French orders named themselves Madames, especially that of St. Madeleine Barat, where this convent school appears to be modeled; and "Mrs." would not be a proper equivalent in English. Miss Clavel's clothing seems more like that of a nurse (although why a nurse is working in what seems to be a Paris convent school is unclear).

Pepeo, the son of the Spanish ambassador who lives next door; Lord Cucuface, the house's owner; and Genevieve, a dog that saves Madeline from drowning in the second book. Bemelmans wrote six Madeline stories in his lifetime, five as picture books and one in a magazine. Since his death and published posthumously, a seventh was discovered:

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