The headwaiter ignored his warning, whipped him, and Bemelmans reportedly shot and seriously wounded him in retaliation. According to Bemelmans, he finally warned the headwaiter that if he was whipped again he would retaliate with a gun. In a 1941 New York Times interview with Robert van Gelder, he related that while an apprentice, he was regularly beaten and even whipped by the headwaiter. He was apprenticed to his uncle Hans Bemelmans at a hotel in Austria. Bemelmans had difficulty in school, as he hated the German style of discipline. In 1904, his father left his wife and Ludwig's governess, both of whom were pregnant with his children, for another woman, after which his mother took Ludwig and his brother to her native city of Regensburg, Germany. His first language was French and his second German. He grew up in Gmunden on the Traunsee in Upper Austria. Early life īemelmans was born to the Belgian painter Lambert Bemelmans and the German Frances Fischer in Meran, Austria-Hungary (now Italy). He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Ludwig Bemelmans (Ap– Octo) was an Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children's books and adult novels. Meran, South Tyrol, Austria-Hungary (now Italy)
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