Alois Lunzer

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Alois Lunzer (17 June 1840 – 16 December 1921) was an Austrian-American watercolour painter. Originally from Hadersdorf, Austria, he immigrated to Philadelphia in 1875 and specialised in doing botanical illustrations.

Lunzer collaborated with Thomas Meehan, botanist and author, and Louis Prang, publisher, in producing “The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States” (1879).

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External links

Media related to Alois Lunzer at Wikimedia Commons

• “The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States”
• Brown Brothers Company; Lunzer, Alois (Ill.): Trees and plants for the world out of doors, 1909