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Bjornsdottir, Sigridur

 
9783906915890: Dieter Roth in My Life: Memories

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Art therapist Sigríður Björnsdóttir provides a rare testimony of her marriage to Dieter Roth as well as their artistic collaborations

Sigríður Björnsdóttir met 22-year-old Dieter Roth in Copenhagen in 1952. A year later, Roth joined her in Reykjavík, and in 1957 they married. 50 years later, Björnsdóttir recounts their meeting, the ups and downs of their marriage, their life with their children and their eventual separation. Beyond her own artistic activities, Björnsdóttir describes her collaborative and experimental work with Roth, their encounters with friends and peers within the tightly woven Icelandic creative community and the beginnings of Roth’s multifaceted practice. Dieter Roth in My Life is an honest and personal account of a period in Björnsdóttir’s life, shared with a man she describes as the love of her life who went on to become a successful and highly influential artist.
Sigríður Björnsdóttir (born 1929) is an art therapist and artist living in Reykjavík. She graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1952 and went on to become a pioneer in art therapy, practicing in Iceland and lecturing worldwide.

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Sigríður Björnsdóttir met 22-year-old Dieter Roth in Copenhagen in 1956. A year later, Roth joined her in Reykjavík, and in 1957 they married. Fifty years later, Björnsdóttir recounts their meeting, their life together with her daughter Adda and

their children Karl (Kalli), Björn (Bjössi), and Vera, the ups and downs of their marriage, and their eventual separation and divorce. Beyond her own professional and artistic activities, and her roles as mother and wife, the author describes her collaborative and experimental work with Roth, their encounters with friends and artistic peers within the tightly-woven Icelandic creative community, and the beginnings of Roth's multifaceted practice.

During this period Roth designed furniture and jewelry and pursued typographical work,

experimenting with new printing techniques, and working on several artist books. In 1957, together

with Icelandic poet Einar Bragi he founded the publishing house forlag ed. After their divorce in

1964, Roth kept studios in Mosfellsbaer and Seyðisfjörður, and collaborated with his children and

grandchildren until his death in 1998.

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