Ludovico Wolfgang Hart

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Ludovico Wolfgang Hart (born January 1836 in England ; † January 14, 1919 in Waimea , Hawaii ) was an English photographer and author of a specialist book and articles on photography . His main work are the photos for the Galerie universelle des Peuples , published in 1865 .

Life

Ludovico Wolfgang Hart, Galerie universelle des peuples: Hornberg, Baden, 1864

Ludovico Wolfgang Hart was probably born in January 1836 as the son of the music teacher and organist Charles Hart. He was baptized four years later on May 1, 1840. From 1853 to 1858 he pioneered the service of the Royal Engineers of England, the technical staff of the British Army , and was trained as a cartographer in Southampton . In the Ordnance of Southampton he received instruction in photography from Charles Thurston Thompson . As early as 1857, Ludovico Hart, while on active duty, published a textbook on technology and procedures in photography: Photography simplified . Due to his enthusiasm for free photography, he quit his job in 1858 and moved to Paris, where he found jobs with André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri and Numa Blanc . After a stay in London in 1860, he returned to Paris. In the early 1860s, Ludivico Hart decided to become a travel photographer. Together with the Strasbourg journalist Charles Lallemand , the writer Émile Solié and the Paris merchant and publisher Armand Varroquier (1829-?) He published ethnophotographic series in the Galerie Universelle des Peuples . From January 1865 onwards, the first portfolios with depictions of traditional costumes from Alsace , the Grand Duchy of Baden , the Black Forest , the Kingdom of Württemberg and Syria appeared in quick succession , which he had traveled to Egypt with Charles Lallemand in the summer of 1865 . The pictures should serve as a template for artists and graphic designers. Customers included Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and the oriental painter Eugène Pavy, who adopted the motif of a Nubian warrior. Due to the very small editions, there was no economic success. In 1877, after various activities and stations, Hart emigrated to Australia , where he introduced innovations in photography and further developed and organized the photographic industry. After documenting the Melbourne International Exhibition in Melbourne as the official photographer in 1880 , he settled there as the owner of a photographic studio until 1900. At the end of the 1880s he went bankrupt due to an economic crisis , but continued the business after a start-up. Ludovico Hart spent his twilight years in Hawaii, where he died on January 14, 1919 in Waimea .

Publications

  • Photography simplified: a practical treatise on the collodion and albumen processes, Marshall and Co., Southampton (1857), full text of volume 2 in the Google book search
  • Galerie universelle des Peuples: Alsace, publiée par Charles Lallemand [et Hart et Émile Solié], Strasbourg (9, rue des Grandes-Arcades), 1865.
  • Galerie universelle des peuples: Wurtemberg, Strasbourg: Bureau central de vente et d'abonnement, 1865.
  • Universelle des peuples gallery: Grandduché de Bade, published by Charles Lallemand [et Hart et Émile Solié]; Strasbourg (9, rue des Grandes-Arcades), 1865.
  • Universelle des peuples gallery: La Forêt noire, published by Charles Lallemand [et Hart et Émile Solié]; Strasbourg (9, rue des Grandes-Arcades), 1865.
  • Gallery universal des peuples. / .I, Syrie, published by Charles Lallemand [et Hart et Émile Solié]; Strasbourg (9, rue des Grandes-Arcades), 1865.

literature

  • Alan Elliot: Ludovico Hart: the complete photographer - a biography, South Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne Camera Club, 2013, ISBN 9780980461107
  • Benjamin Thomas: Ludovico Hart, Photographer (circa 1836–1919)

Web links

Commons : Ludovico Wolfgang Hart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Volume 18, E. & HT Anthony & Company, 1887, p. 169
  2. ^ BnF - Voyage en Orient .
  3. ↑ Ludovico Hart, Photographer (circa 1836-1919) .
  4. ↑ Ludovico Hart, Photographer (circa 1836-1919) .
personal data
SURNAME Hart, Ludovico Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hart, Ludovico Woolfgang; Hart, Ludovico Woelfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English photographer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH England
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1919
Place of death Waimea , Hawaii