Ida Trotzig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ida Trotzig

Swedish photographer

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1864

Place of Birth: Kalmar, Kalmar County, Sweden

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1943

Profession: photographer, writer, painter, ethnographer, japanologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ida Bertha Trotzig née Magnét (1864–1943) was a Swedish photographer, ethnographer, Japanologist, author and painter.
From 1888, together with her husband Herman Trotzig, she spent 33 years in Japan, acquiring a profound interest in Japanese culture, especially the tea ceremony and flower arrangement.
On her return to Sweden, in 1935 she managed the establishment of a Japanese tea garden near the Ethnographical Museum in the Djurgården park in central Stockholm.