Person

Todt, Emil Hermann (c. 1810 - 1900)

Born: c. 1810
Berlin, Germany
Died: 10 July 1900
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Botanical artist

Summary

Emil Todt was a sculptor and botanical artist, active in Australia between the 1850s to the 1880s.He produced over seventy lithographed illustrations for Ferdinand von Mueller's Eucalyptographia: a descriptive atlas of the Eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands (1879-1884).

Details

Todt emigrated from Germany to Australia in 1849. He settled in Melbourne in 1854, where he continued his work as a sculptor. His most famous work, The gold diggers (1854), now at the National Gallery of Victoria, attracted a number of commissions and Emil Todt was soon considered a leading artist. In 1882, von Mueller named Eucalyptus todtiana in honour of Todt.

Chronology

1830 - 1836: Education - Studied sculpture under Ludwig Wichmann in Berlin
1849: Life event - Emigrated to South Australia
1854: Life event - Settled in Melbourne, Victoria
1854: Career event - Exhibition of The gold diggers
1882: Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus todtiana F.Muell. was named in his honour
1882 - 1884: Career event - Illustrated Ferdinand von Mueller's Eucalyptographia...(1879-1884)

Related People

Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)
Todt illustrated Mueller's Eucalyptographia

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Eucalyptographia : a descriptive atlas of the eucalypts of Australia and the adjoining islands. Decades I - X [10 volumes] (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1879-1884). http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924074094446#page/n437/mode/2up/. Illustrator. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5371470. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/80896015. Details
'Todt, Emil Hermann (1810-19000710)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1540474. Details

Resource Sections

Todt, Emil, 'The gold diggers (1854)', in Collection Online - Artworks. National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/3628. Details

Christine Moje

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