Burma / Myanmar: Studio portrait of a well-to-do Burman couple on a Burmese bed, probably Rangoon / Yangon, c. 1890s. Philip Adolphe Klier (c.1845-1911)

Philip Adolphe Klier was a German photographer best known for his photographs of colonial Burma / Myanmar. By 1871 he was a professional photographer in Moulmein, Burma. His business included work as an optician, watchmaker, and jeweller as well running the firm known as Murken & Klier.

Around 1880 Klier moved to Rangoon, Burma‘s largest city. In the wake of the conquest of the Irrawaddy Delta by the British in 1852, Rangoon had become the center of Indo-British power. Klier worked independently until 1885 when he went into partnership with J. Jackson. By 1890 the partnership was dissolved and Klier became an independent again.

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Supplier: CPA Media Co. Ltd.

Photographer:

Philip Adolphe Klier

Credit:

Pictures From History

Theme:

BURMESE PEOPLES