Old Asia Photography

Indonesia - Women of Batavia


Ref: 01494

Schulze, Fedor

​Studio wet-stamp on reverse: 'Schulze Phot Batavia'. 
Captain Fedor Schulze (1836-1908) was a German military officer who served with distinction in the Dutch forces and settled in Batavia where he became a naturalised Dutchman. Amongst other publications he produced: Capt. Fedor Schulze, West-Java Traveller’s Guide (Batavia, 1894). He arrived in S.E. Asia in 1858 and retired from the military around 1888 and set himself up as a publisher and photographer. His portraits are often intimate and sensual.​

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