Ludwig Bemelmans grew up hearing stories about a young girl who attended a boarding school where the students “slept in little beds that stood in two rows” and “went walking in two straight lines.” ...

Sotheby’s is pleased to present Madeline and More: The Whimsical World of Ludwig Bemelmans, a charming group of paintings, illustrations and sketches by the beloved artist Ludwig Bemelmans. The sale ...

Old New York is back, from Broadway to the Upper East Side, where the 1930s-era Carlyle Hotel is having a moment. Even downtown cool kids are trekking uptown for drinks at Bemelmans Bar, which ...

Other good things come in book packages. Madeline's Christmas Book and Doll boxes up a copy of Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline's Christmas plus a 7"" toy Madeline. The doll wears a festive red coat and ...

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 ...

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 ...