directly onto the plate with familiar pens. As early as 1803 André published in London a portfolio of artists lithographs, entitled Specimens of Polyautography. In 1837, lithography had been further developed to allow full colour printing from multiple plates, and chromolithography was the most important technique in colour printing until the introduction of process colour. Awards and legacy Senefelder was decorated by King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria and a statue of him stands in the town of Solnhofen, where lithographic stone is still quarried. A statue of Alois Senefelder by sculptor Rudolf Pohle was erected in 1892 in what was then known as Thusneldaplatz in Berlin. The name of the square was changed to Senefelderplatz in 1894. An U-Bahn station named Senefelderplatz was opened in 1913. Alois Senefelder's contribution ranks alongside William Ged's invention of stereotyping, Friedrich Koenig's steam press and Ottmar Mergenthaler's linotype machine in its innovative effect. It made printing more affordable and available to more people, and was important in art and newspaper printing. Senefelder lived to see his process become widely adopted both for art printmaking and as the dominant method of pictorial reproduction in the printing industry. He died in Munich, where he is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof. Several plant taxa have been named after him as well. The genus of Senefeldera (in the Euphorbiaceae family). and of Senefelderopsis (Euphorbiaceae). See also Johann André List of German inventors and discoverers References Sources THE INVENTION OF LITHOGRAPHY by Alois Senefelder, (English translation, 1911) (a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF format) Alois Senefelder: Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey, (Complete Manual of Lithography), 1818, Nederlands Steendrukmuseum External links Alois Senenfelder at Open Library 1771 births 1834 deaths 18th-century Bohemian people 18th-century German scientists 19th-century German scientists 18th-century German inventors German Bohemian people Writers from Prague Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof German male dramatists and playwrights 18th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German writers Scientists from Prague 19th-century German male writers 18th-century German male writers