About: Philip Adolphe Klier

Philip Adolphe Klier (c. 1845 in Offenbach, German Confederation – 27 March 1911 in Rangoon, British Burma), also known as Philip Klier, was a German photographer, who arrived in Burma as a young man around 1865 and spent the rest of his life there. Mainly working as self-trained photographer and businessman, Klier took hundreds of photographs at the end of the 19th century during the British colonial period in Burma. His photographs, taken both in his studio as well as on location, were sold as picture postcards for foreign visitors. They have been published in several books and collected in public archives. Among a small number of other photographers, Klier is considered as one of the earliest professional photographers in the history of today's Myanmar.