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 ...

Custom artwork by New York artist Xavier Donnelly, inspired by Ludwig Bemelmans' whimsical style and the original murals in Bemelmans Bar, unfolds across the walls. Within this spirited narrative are ...

Manhattan’s waning art season put forth a bright, belated bloom last week—a 57th Street show of sophisticated, slaphappy paintings by Writer-Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, 53. Done mostly with gouache, ...

Madeline, the smallest of the “twelve little girls in two straight lines” who lived in “an old house in Paris that was covered in vines,” was born in Manhattan. In Pete’s Tavern on Irving Place in ...