Hart, Ludovico Wolfgang (1836 - 1919)

Born
3 February 1836
England
Died
14 January 1919
Waimea, Hawaii
Occupation
Photographer and Teacher
Alternative Names
  • Hart, Ludovico Woelfgang (also known as)
  • Hart, Ludovico Woolfgang (also known as)
Summary

Ludovico Wolfgang Hart was born in England on 3 February 1836. While serving with the Royal Engineers, he received instruction in photography from notable photographer Charles Thurston Thompson. In 1877 he emigrated to Australia, having been hired by the New South Wales Government Printing Office to introduce photomechanical processes. Hart went on to photograph the 1880-81 Melbourne International Exhibition. In 1887 he was appointed Instructor in Photography at the Working Men's College and was instrumental in establishing the Working Men's College Photographic Club (later the Melbourne Camera Club). He was designated Honorary Instructor at the inaugural meeting of the Club on 14 April 1891. Hart retired to Hawaii in 1901 and lived there until his death in 1919.

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Archival Resources

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives

  • Director's Letter Book (1887 - 1888) Including Ormond National Memorial Fund Letters (1889 - c.1893), 1887 - c. 1893, Item no. SER-03960, Series S0210; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives. Details
  • Secretary's Reports and Recommendations [to Council] 1890 - 1912 - By Frederick Campbell, first Secretary. Position called Director from 1891, 1890 - 1912, Item no. SER-04650, Series S0284; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives. Details
  • Working Men's College Council Minute Book 1892 - 1903 - No. 2 25 January 1892 - 21 January 1903 pp.1-383, 1892 - 1903, Item no. SER-09902 Series S0602; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives. Details

Published Resources

Books

  • Connolly, T. W. J., History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from the formation of the corps in March 1772, to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers, in October 1856, 2 edn, vol. 2, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London, 1857. Also available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnzw4c&seq=11. Details
  • Elliot, Alan, Ludovico Hart: The Complete Photographer, Melbourne Camera Club, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2013. Details
  • Hart, Ludovico W., and Working Men's College, Photographic Formulae, as Used by the Students of the Photographic Classes at the Working Men's College, A.H. Massina & Co., Melbourne, Victoria, 1895. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Intercolonial Photographic Exhibition and Congress of Australasia, 1896', The Australian Photographic Journal (Sydney, New South Wales), vol. V, 20 March 1896, p. 56. Details
  • 'Working Men's College Photographic Club Melbourne', The Australian Photographic Journal: Exchange & Mart (Sydney, New South Wales), vol. X, no. 3, 20 March 1901, p. 71. Also available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433059791818&seq=1. Details

Newspaper Articles

Sources used to compile this entry: 'Picture Printing', The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1878, p. 6. Also available at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13410725; 'Working Men's College Photographic Club', The Argus, 17 April 1891, p. 6. Also available at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8663408; 'Intercolonial Photographic Exhibition and Congress of Australasia, 1896', The Australian Photographic Journal (Sydney, New South Wales), vol. V, 20 March 1896, p. 56; 'Working Men's College Photographic Club Melbourne', The Australian Photographic Journal: Exchange & Mart (Sydney, New South Wales), vol. X, no. 3, 20 March 1901, p. 71. Also available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433059791818&seq=1; 'Prof. L. W. Hart', The Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii Territory), 23 January 1919, p. 6; Connolly, T. W. J., History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from the formation of the corps in March 1772, to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers, in October 1856, 2 edn, vol. 2, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London, 1857. Also available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnzw4c&seq=11; Director's Letter Book (1887 - 1888) Including Ormond National Memorial Fund Letters (1889 - c.1893), 1887 - c. 1893, Item no. SER-03960, Series S0210; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives; Elliot, Alan, Ludovico Hart: The Complete Photographer, Melbourne Camera Club, South Melbourne, Victoria, 2013; Secretary's Reports and Recommendations [to Council] 1890 - 1912 - By Frederick Campbell, first Secretary. Position called Director from 1891, 1890 - 1912, Item no. SER-04650, Series S0284; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives; Working Men's College Council Minute Book 1892 - 1903 - No. 2 25 January 1892 - 21 January 1903 pp.1-383, 1892 - 1903, Item no. SER-09902 Series S0602; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives; Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Honolulu, HI, USA, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records [Registered No. 1091]; 'Hawaii, Death Records and Death Registers, 1841-1925', FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W9VW-463Z), Entry for L Whart, 14 Jan 1919.

Created: 9 December 2025, Last modified: 26 February 2026