Robert A Schaefer Jr - Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, India

Robert A Schaefer Jr

A photographer for over thirty years, Robert Schaefer began learning about the medium while studying Architecture at the Technische Universitaet of Munich, Germany. He exhibited at the Amerika Hauses in Munich, Hamburg, Hannover and Frankfurt, Kulturhaus in Graz, Austria and the City Museum of Munich among others before moving to New York City in 1981. In 1999 – 2000 he had a 25-Year Retrospective at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama. Lyle Rexer in Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-garde, (Abrams / 2002) commenting on Schaefer’s cyanotypes says, “The work of former architect Robert Schaefer marries the process to a Machine Age aesthetic of urban geometrics and industrial technologies. In November 2009, Schaefer traveled to India to photograph Chandigarh designed by Le Corbusier and to Dhaka, Bangladesh to capture Louis Kahn’s Parliament buildings. Images taken in Chandigarh and others of ancient architectural sites in Delhi and Agra were used to produce cyanotypes for exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi and the Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh in November 2010. Both exhibitions were curated by Elizabeth Rogers who also edited the catalogue produced for the exhibitions.