Käthe Buchler

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

Käthe Buchler
self-portrait, c. 1905
Born	Katharina von Rhamm (1876-10-11)11 October 1876 Braunschweig, Germany
Died	14 September 1930(1930-09-14) (aged 53) Braunschweig, Germany
Nationality	German
Other names	Katharina Buchler
Known for	Photography
Spouse	Walther Buchler[1]

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 Museum für Photographie (Braunschweig) [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

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  Braunschweig in World War I
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  Women train conductors in Braunschweig
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  Braunschweig in World War I
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  Braunschweig in World War I