Käthe Buchler

Käthe Buchler was a German photographer.

Biography

Buchler née von Rhamm was born on 11 October 1876 in Braunschweig, Germany. A self-taught photographer, her husband gave Buchler her first camera in 1901. During World War I Buchler recorded daily life in Braunschweig including war efforts, orphaned children, and wounded soldiers. Buchler worked mainly with black and white film but also experimented with the new Autochrome process.
Buchler died on 14 September 1930 in Brunswick. In 2003 the archive of 1,000 black and white prints and 175 color autochrome plates was donated to the . 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.