Tyra Kleen

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Tyra Kleen (1901)

Tyra Kleen (born March 29, 1874 in Stockholm , Sweden ; † September 17, 1951 in Lidingö , Sweden) was a Swedish artist and writer.

Career

Tyra Kleen, daughter of Amalia (1842–1929), b. Wattrang, and the diplomat Fredrik Herman Rikard Kleen , was born in the parish of Jakobs in 1874 . Her grandparents were Anna Beata af Kleen (1813–1894) and Johan af Kleen . Not much is known about her teenage years. Tyra and her older siblings, Ingeborg and Nils (1872–1965), received a cosmopolitan upbringing in various countries in the service of their father, and from an early age Kleen drew and painted and also wrote short stories. Valinge Manor , north of Jönåker in Nyköping municipality , was the family home.

From 1890 to 1892 she studied painting in Dresden , 1892 to 1893 at the Karlsruhe School of Artists and 1894/1895 at the Ladies Academy of the Artists' Association in Munich under Ludwig von Herterich . During the years 1895 to 1897, she then attended the Académie Delecluse , the Académie Colarossi , the Académie Julian and the Académie Vitti . During her stay in Paris ( France ) she painted cafes and landscapes. Their first exhibition took place in Paris in 1896.

From 1897 she lived in Rome ( Italy ) for ten years and then in Berlin and Paris for a few years . She made many trips around the world, mostly alone. In 1910 she went to British India and Sri Lanka , visited the United States and the Caribbean , and in 1917 took the opportunity to organize an exhibition in New York. The meeting with Max Klinger and his stylus art was decisive for her artistic training , so a large part of her early works can be assigned to symbolism up to Art Nouveau , and her interest in lithography , a medium that she learned to the full. In 1907, the lithographs by the Swede Tyra Kleen were described as "symbolizing" in the exhibition of the bookseller and publisher Hugo Heller in Vienna and as "fantastic" at the exhibition in Palazzo Serlupi in Rome.

She also worked as an illustrator . Her first book, which she illustrated, was Drommar by the South African writer Olive Schreiner . Kleen made the illustrations for her own prose poem En psykesaga .

From 1919 to 1921 she was in Java and Bali , where she carried out anthropological work through studies and illustrations of Balinese temple dances Legong , Tjalong Arong and Djoged , where she herself made dance training, as well as studying the mudras of the priests.

Kleen mainly made drawings, etchings and lithographs. Her works have been exhibited in Berlin, Vienna , Milan , Rome, Paris, London and Saint Petersburg . At the exhibition Två vittberesta damer in Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1922 she exhibited works of art and artifacts from Java and Bali. The artist Ida Potsig exhibited works from the Japanese Empire . In 1924, Tyra Kleen published the children's book Ni-Si Pleng , stories of black children drawn for white children. Kleen signed her illustrations with "T.Kn."

On her death, Kleen bequeathed her villa on Lidingö and all of her works of art to Riddarhuset in Stockholm, provided that her legacy does not open until 50 years after her death. Today you can find the entire collection Tyra Kleens on Good Valinge (Valinge Gård).

Works (selection)

  • Lek: från Roms bohêmevärld, (Bohème Welt von Rom) Bonniers, 1900 (Roman, under the pseudonym Isis)
  • En psykesaga, Wahlström & Widstrand, 1902 (picture book)
  • Light and Shadows, 1907
  • Form, Sandbergs Buchhandel, 1910 (art essays)
  • Strövtåg i Orienten, ( Forays through the Orient) Norstedts, 1911
  • Dream of the Mountains , Rome, 1911
  • Mudrās: the ritual hand-poses of the Buddha priests and the Shiva priests of Bali, with an introduction by AJD Campbell, Trubner & Co., London, 1924
  • Mudras in Bali. Holding hands of the priests , Fr. de Kat Angelino (text); Tyra Kleen (drawings), Folkwang Verlag, Hagen iW and Darmstadt, 1923 digitized
  • Ni-Si-Pleng: en historia om svarta barn, berättad och ritad för vita barn, (a story of black children, told and drawn for white children) JA Lindblads Förlag, Uppsala, 1924 (children's book)
  • Tempeldanser och musikinstrument på Bali, (Temple dances and musical instruments in Bali) Nordisk rotogravyr, 1931
  • Solens son, Gothia, 1946

Honors

The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography awarded Tyra Kleen the Johan August Wahlberg Silver Medal for her exploration and detailed work of the Indonesian archipelago.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sveriges Dödbok 1901–2009, DVD-ROM, Version 5.00, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2010)
  2. ↑ Lexicon entry: Kleen, Tyra (Swedish) , Runeberg project at runeberg.org, accessed on July 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Linjer och Symboler (lines and symbols): Nâgra ord om Tyra Kleen och hennes konst (A few words about Tyra Kleen and her art). (PDF, Swedish) , IDUN , Illustrerad Tidning, Johan Nordling (Ed.), No. 8, February 21, 1909, pp. 93–96
  4. ↑ http://www.wienbibliothek.at/sites/default/files/files/buchforschung/fuchs-sabine-hugo-heller.pdf Monograph: Hugo Heller (1870–1923), bookseller and publisher in Vienna
  5. ^ From exhibitions and collections , in Die Kunst : Monthly Issue for Free and Applied Art, F. Bruckmann , Munich, 1907, p. 367
  6. ^ Roman spring exhibition in Die Kunst: Monthly Issue for Free and Applied Arts, F. Bruckmann, Munich, 108, p. 424
  7. ↑ Tyra Kleene Collection (Swedish) , on valingegård.se, accessed on July 13, 2016
  8. ↑ Jugend , Vol. 16, Issue 43, p. 1138
personal data
SURNAME Kleen, Tyra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleen, Thyra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1951
Place of death on Lidingö , Sweden