Painting

Exhibition text for “Women and art,” 8 March to 6 June 2004 at the Museum of Bohusläns: Ulla-Britta Emitslöf-Dejmo (born 1924) moved in her 20th year from her birthplace Älmhult in Småland. She had won entry for studies at the Sluff Association in Gothenburg. The artist Nils Wedel was a teacher there. He came to mean a lot to her, as did Otte Sköld, in whose painting school in Stockholm Ulla-Britta spent two years. It was during these years that she met her life companion Kurt Dejmo. The artist couple Emitslöf-Dejmo settled in Uddevalla and has become the city faithful. In Ulla-Britta’s paintings there is a great measure of romance and lyric but also perishable. Her unique frames with engraved diaries often reinforce the image content. The text around the painting of the exhibition Flowering archipelago reads “U B Emitslöf-Dejmo has made this frame in the studio at Sörgården Uddevalla a sunny and warm summer day on Monday the twenty-first of the month of June the year nittonhundrasjuttiosex UB Emitslöf-Dejmo Sörgården 9673 Uddevalla.” The work Stilleben has a more concrete enlightenment: “Ulla-Britta Emitslöf Dejmo has made this framework.” In another material - textile - we meet her pictorial world in large tissues or applications for churches, schools, regiments and other public premises. It was not infrequent that she and husband Kurt collaborated in these interior design missions. The South Duty Church in Uddevalla, Bäcke Church in Dalsland and Blåsutöin Versborg are some examples. In the Röhsska Museum’s collections in Gothenburg there is a fraternity of quite different kinds. The title of the picture is King II from 1962-1963. It is a portrait in the series of Swedish kings that Ulla-Britt staged after receiving inspiration from a painting depicting the French Renaissance prince Frans I. See appendix marks UM5506; B-essay in art science, Stockholm 2006 (?), Ulla Lindh-Strömberg.