{"id":2933,"date":"2010-07-19T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2010-07-29T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:03:23","slug":"100-years-of-louis-maurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/19\/100-years-of-louis-maurer\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of Louis Maurer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Louis Maurer<\/a> (1832-1932) lived to be 100 years old\u2014fulfilling one century’s worth of accomplishments. The New York Times<\/em> described Maurer in his obituary as a \u201clithographer, painter, cabinetmaker, shell expert, wood and ivory carver, anatomist, crack shot, winner of a blue ribbon in the first New York horse show, and the first to ride a horse in Riverside Park.\u201d Maurer, the son of a cabinetmaker, was born in Biebrich, Germany, but immigrated to the United States in 1851.\u00a0 In New York, Maurer worked as a wood carver until Charles Currier, the brother of the publishing house co-owner Nathaniel Currier, discovered Maurer\u2019s talent.\u00a0 Maurer worked as a lithographer for Currier & Ives for a decade beginning in 1854.\u00a0 Currier & Ives published 27 of Maurer\u2019s lithographs in a ten-year period, including 17 cartoons of the presidential election of 1860<\/a>.\u00a0 Though today, Maurer\u2019s 1860 cartoons are some of the most recognized Currier & Ives prints, he left the firm to break out of his own, and in 1872 founded his own lithographic company Heppenheimer & Maurer.\u00a0 Maurer officially retired in 1884, but did not stop gaining new talents or experiences. Maurer began studying the flute at age 80, and on his 100th birthday, performed for his family and friends. The New York Times<\/em> reported that Maurer was still full of vigor even at towards the end of his long life: \u201cin 1930, at Green Pond, N.J. he stopped a mounted policeman and prevailed on the officer to let him ride the horse a while.\u201d\u00a0 Louis Maurer passed on his artist talents to his son Alfred, one of the three children he had with his wife Louisa.<\/p>\n

To view a slideshow of a collection of Maurer’s cartoons in Flickr, click on any of the images below:<\/p>\n

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Louis Maurer (1832-1932) lived to be 100 years old\u2014fulfilling one century’s worth of accomplishments. The New York Times described Maurer in his obituary as a \u201clithographer, painter, cabinetmaker, shell expert, wood and ivory carver, anatomist, crack shot, winner of a blue ribbon in the first New York horse show, and the first to ride a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}