Ida defiant

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Ida defiant
Ida defiant

Ida Potsig (born September 6, 1864 as Ida Bertha Magnét in Kalmar , Sweden ; † November 5, 1943 in Stockholm , Sweden) was a Swedish photographer , ethnographer, Japanologist, writer and painter. She is known for her collection of Japanese photographs from around 1900, which she donated to the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm .

life and work

Defiant studied painting at the Technical School in Stockholm and married in 1888 in Germany, Herman Defensig, her mother's brother. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Kobe , Japan, where their husband became police chief. After losing two daughters to a typhoon , she especially studied the Japanese tea ceremony . She became a Japanese tea master after 10 years of study and posted articles on Japan and its cultural expressions to Swedish newspapers and magazines. She probably began working with the department of the Swedish National Museum, which became the Ethnographic Museum, as early as 1898 when she was in Sweden for health reasons. During an extended visit from 1909 to 1912, she wrote the chapter on Japanese ceramics in the exhibition catalog for the Japanese exhibition of the National Museum. When she returned to Japan, she created collections of objects and images on behalf of the museum. In 1921 this cooperation was intensified after her return as a widow and thanks to her good connections to Japan the museum was able to open an authentic tea house called Zui-ki-tei near the Ethnographic Museum in Djurgården Park in central Stockholm. This tea house was destroyed by fire in 1969, but was replaced by a new tea house in the museum park in 1990. In 1911 she published Cha-no-yu, japanernas teeceremoni , a richly illustrated work on the tea ceremony. Their daughter Inez married the director Sven Stenberg in 1917 and then moved to Japan, where their daughter Gaby Stenberg was born in Tokyo in 1923 . In the same year they moved back to Sweden after the great Kanto earthquake of 1923.

Publications in book form

(posthumously)

literature

  • Ulla Wagner: Japan Imagined: The Ida Potsig Collection of Photographs from the Meiji Era in Japan, 2009, ISBN 978-9185344574
  • Gaby Stenberg: Ida Defiant: min mormor, Japanese pioneers, 2009, ISBN 9789172472167

Web links

Commons : Ida Potsig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Defiant, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magnét, Ida Bertha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish photographer, ethnographer, Japanologist, writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Squid
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Stockholm