Austrian-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898, in Merano, Austria-Hungary, now located in modern-day Italy. His father was a painter and hotel owner and his mother an amateur ...

Their author and illustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), was a prolific writer of a great many other books too (more than 40, including novels), as well as a painter and cartoonist. What a ...