Charles Kroehle

Charles Kroehle, 1888, Photographers Kroehle and Huebner on a stand on Rio Pachitea, Photograph, Private collection of Renato Mazzoni, LL/50321

Charles Kroehle

Joint: Kroehle and Hübner
Joint: Krohle & Hubner

Born: 1876
Died: 1902
Gender: Male
Active: Peru
 
German photographer who untook expeditions into the Amazon including parts of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia in the 1890s. He is considered one of the pioneers of photography in the Amazon region. His photographs were published in El Perú Ilustrado (1892).
 
Charles Kroehle archives are kept in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ethnologisches Museum (they have around 100 photographs). Some are kept in the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford, UK) and one album is in the former Musee de l'Homme (today Musee du Quai Branly) in Paris.

Genealogy of Charles Kroehle

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