Eduard Imhof (1895 – 1986) was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 to 1965. His studies on relief shading were revolutionary: all the editions of the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, and the Schweizerischer Sekundarschulatlas, the atlases used in Swiss high schools and primary school, published from 1932 until 1976 were under his direction.

His fame brought him to spend several weeks in a Tibetan monastery in 1930, in order to measure the height and position of Minya Konka and he made a journey to Ankara, Turkey, in 1951, to work for the Turkish Office for Land Surveying , and to make an ascent of Mount Ararat.

Here follows, in no particular and non-chronological order, a selection of early studies, sketches, reliefs shading paintings, panoramas, watercolours, model photos and model making techniques. (More resources at the end of the post)

Resources:

Virtual Library Eduard Imhof at ETHZ

Eduard Imhof entry at reliefshading.com

Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, blog entry at the wonderful Codex99.com

Shaded Relief Archive / Eduard Imhof (hi-res images)

Terrain Models / Eduard Imhof

Via: But Does it Float?