{"id":18660,"date":"2023-05-19T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18660"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:53:36","slug":"louis-prang-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/louis-prang-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Prang Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Louis Prang (Prussian-American, 1824-1909)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prang was a printer, lithographer, and publisher known as the &#8220;father of the American Christmas card.\u201d Early in his life, due to European political upheaval, he emigrated to the US. After buying a press, Prang began working with color printing for advertising, map printing, and other forms of business materials. Prang went to Germany to learn additional lithography techniques and began to reproduce famous artworks. He started selling Christmas Cards in 1874, which had a major impact on American culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-700x900.webp\" alt=\"aaron  kaylee\" class=\"wp-image-18658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-700x900.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-233x300.webp 233w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-768x988.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-1194x1536.webp 1194w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-488x628.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373-155x200.webp 155w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2005.17.1-e1684527238373.webp 1372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Prang (Prussian-American, 1824-1909) Prang was a printer, lithographer, and publisher known&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18660\/revisions\/19346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}