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Last Name Prang

Given Name Louis

alt. Names L. P. ;

Marriage Rosa Gerber in 1851 in Boston (Swiss)

Children

Year born 1824 in Breslau, nowadays Wrocław, Poland

Year died 1909

Place of death City of Boston, Massachussetts, USA

Father's occupation rench Huguenot and printer Jonas Louis Prang

Relatives German mother, Rosina Silverman, 7 sisters

Education he accompanied & apprenticed his father, designing, engraving, printing & dying various mediums, from age 13 to 18

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Prang's Lehrgang für die Künstlerische Erziehung unter bes. Berücks. des Naturzeichnens; Color instruction; suggestions for a course of instruction in color for public schools; Prang's Civil War pictures

Patronage Prang Educational Company ,

Collaborators artist Callowhill ; painter Alois Lunzer , painter F. S. Mathews ; painter George C. Lambdin ; Mary Dana Hicks (1836-1927) ; Arnold Dodel (1843-1908) ;

Techniques chromolithograpyh, wood engraving, chromolithographical reproduction on 32 stones ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.de/2009/04/louis-prang-father-of-american.html ; www.aaa.si.edu/collections/louis-prang-papers-9709/more ;

Published sources A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Catalogue of an exhibition illustrative of a centenary of artistic lithography, 1796-1896 at the Grolier Club, 1896 ; Bridson 2003: 90 &180 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 (without number) ;

other Born in Prussia, as a journeyman in Europe, revolutionary against the Prussian government in 1848. to Switzerland; to Boston in 1850; Roxbury: L. Prang & Co Lithographic Art Publishers; "father" of the American Christmas Card ;

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