19 Facts About Louis Prang

Louis Prang was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist.

Louis Prang is sometimes known as the "father of the American Christmas card".

Louis Prang's father Jonas Louis Prang was a textile manufacturer and of French Huguenot origin; his mother, Rosina Silverman, was German.

Louis Prang specialized in prints of buildings and towns in Massachusetts.

Louis Prang used numerous stones to produce each of his works, unlike his contemporaries.

Louis Prang continued producing maps throughout the war as the public became progressively more engrossed in the details of the fighting.

Louis Prang's success producing war maps allowed him to amass the necessary funds to return to Europe and learn about new developments in German lithography in 1864.

Some praised Louis Prang for making art more affordable, while others claimed he was detracting value from the original.

Louis Prang began creating series of popular album cards, advertised to be collected in scrapbooks, showing natural scenes and patriotic symbols.

Louis Prang was an active supporter of female artists, both commissioning and collecting artworks by women.

In June 1886, Louis Prang published a series of prints under the title Louis Prang's War Pictures: Aquarelle Facsimile Prints, aiming to portray the details of the war in such a way that was both accurate and appealing to the public.

Louis Prang was dedicated to using his art to educate and inspire others, so each print was accompanied by text detailing the historical details of the battle portrayed, as well as firsthand accounts of what occurred, many of which came directly from soldiers.

However, Louis Prang aimed at a more modern and individual treatment, as opposed to the panoramic style of Kurz and Allison, and before them, Currier and Ives.

Louis Prang died of pleuropneumonia on June 15,1909, at the Glendale Sanitarium in Los Angeles.

Louis Prang is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

On November 1,1851, Louis Prang married Rosa Gerber of Bern, Switzerland.

Louis Prang died on June 2,1898, and on April 15,1900, he married Mary Dana Hicks.

Louis Prang did his best to remain unaffiliated with the image Heinzen projected in the interest of succeeding in the world of business.

Louis Prang often supported Heinzen both financially and in the face of public criticism the latter faced, particularly from other Germans in the Boston area.