Wiele & Klein (fl.1900-20)
Creator details
- Name
- Wiele & Klein (fl.1900-20)
- Biography
- Wiele and Klein was one of the best known photographic studios in South India, and survived in different forms and under different owners from the 1880s until the 1940s, with studios in Madras (Chennai), Bangalore (Bengaluru), and Ootacamund (Udagamandalam). Around 1877, Wiele is believed to have opened a photographic studio in Bangalore, India. He entered into a partnership with Klein and opened a studio in Madras ca. 1890. The business was ruined when Wiele and Klein were interred as Germans in British India during World War I.
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