Käthe Buchler

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Käthe Buchler
Käthe Buchler - self-portrait, c 1905.jpg
self-portrait, c. 1905
Born
Katharina von Rhamm

(1876-10-11)11 October 1876
Braunschweig, Germany
Died14 September 1930(1930-09-14) (aged 53)
Braunschweig, Germany
NationalityGerman
Other namesKatharina Buchler
Known forPhotography
Spouse(s)Walther Buchler[1]

Käthe Buchler (1876-1930) was a German photographer.

Biography[]

Buchler née von Rhamm was born on 11 October 1876 in Braunschweig, Germany.[2] A self-taught photographer, her husband gave Buchler her first camera (a binocular Voigtländer)[1] in 1901.[3] During World War I Buchler recorded daily life in Braunschweig including war efforts, orphaned children, and wounded soldiers.[4] Buchler worked mainly with black and white film but also experimented with the new Autochrome process.[5]

Buchler died on 14 September 1930 in Brunswick.[2] In 2003 the archive of 1,000 black and white prints and 175 color autochrome plates was donated to the  [de] (Museum of Photography Braunschweig).[3] In 2017 and 2018 an exhibition of Buchler's work Beyond the Battlefields:Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War was shown at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Birmingham.[6]

Gallery[]

  • Braunschweig in World War I

  • Women train conductors in Braunschweig

  • Braunschweig in World War I

  • Braunschweig in World War I

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Beyond the Battlefields: Käthe Buchler's Photographs of Germany in the Great War". The Iron Room. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Käthe Buchler". Photographers’ Identities Catalog. The New York Public Library. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gallery for Käthe Buchler's Photographs of Germany in the Great War". Arts and Humanities Research Council. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. ^ Cowan, Katy (30 January 2018). "Beyond the Battlefields reveals life on the German home front during the First World War". Creative Boom. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  5. ^ Del Rio Martinez, Pierangelly (9 February 2018). "Beyond the Battlefields: Käthe Buchler's Photographs of Germany in the Great War". aAh! Magazine. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Beyond the Battlefields Exhibitions and Events | Voices of War and Peace". Voices of War and Peace. Retrieved 14 May 2021.

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