Tyra Kleen (29 March 1874 – 17 September 1951) was a Swedish artist, author and women's rights activist. Her paintings, illustrations, lithographs and publications were important to the Swedish fin de siècle art movement. But above all she was an independent ethnographical researcher.
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Biography
Childhood and education
Tyra Kleen was born in Sweden to Swedish diplomat and author Fredrik Herman Rikard Kleen (1841–1923) and Maria Charlotte Amalia née Wattrang (1842–1929). She had two siblings; an older brother Nils Rikardsson af Kleen (1872–1965) and sister Ingeborg Kleen (1870–1911). Due to the frequent absence of the parents, the children were primarily educated by their grandfather, Marshall Nils Adolf Wattrang, who died in 1890 when Kleen was 16 years old.