Gerda Tirén

Gerda Tirén, 1880.
Portrait of Gerda Tirén by John Lavery, 1883.

Gerda Tirén née Rydberg (11 January 1858 – 1928) was a Swedish painter and illustrator.

Family and education

She was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Emma Forsslund and Carl Henrik Rydberg, a newspaper writer. She was educated at the Technical School in Stockholm and went on to study art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and then traveled to Paris for further study.[1]

In 1884, she married Johan Tirén (1853-1911),[1] an artist whom she had probably met while studying for a time at a private art school run by the artist Edvard Perséus. They had four children, among whom their daughter Kristina and son Nils also became artists.

Art career

Tirén painted landscapes, genre paintings, and illustrations for children's magazines like Jultomten. She is especially known for her black and white illustrations for an 1899 edition of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, of which some 200,000 copies were printed.[1][2] Like Jenny Nyström, she also created illustrations for Christmas cards.

She died in Norrtälje Municipality in Uppland.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gerda Tirén". Nationalmuseum website.
  2. ↑ Peterson, Bo. Media, Minds and Men: A History of Media in Sweden, p. 162.
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