BARBRO LÖFGREN ÖRTENDAHL. Watercolor, "Rösjön March 1948".

34x28 cm "Barbro Charlotta Löfgren, artist and designer born at Tallåsen in Danderyd on 23 September 1918. She was educated at the Higher School of Art and Design 1936-1940 and was then employed as an illustrator and advertising illustrator at Esselte. In 1948 she joined Birkagårdens Islandscirkel and the same year she traveled to Iceland, a journey that will mean a lot in her continued life. At Birkagården she also met her future husband Sune Örtendahl (1915-1998) and in 1953 they married.
From 1957 the couple Örtendahl spends the summers in Klemetsmåla in Blekinge and there she develops much of her art. In the period 1962-69 she has freelance assignments for Karlskrona and Gefle Porcelain Factories and during this period she created several well-known tableware and decorations, including Plantain, Clover meadow, Blueberry, Tulip, Resin acid, Small-leaved fern and Tulip.
In 1971 she went to a supplementary education at Birkagårdens Grafiska Skola and in 1972 the couple Örtendahl traveled back to Iceland. The result of the visits to Iceland will be a 242-book collection on Icelandic conditions, a collection that was donated in 2002 to the Nordic Folk High School in Biskops-Arnö. Barbro passed away on October 26, 2005 in Enebyberg. Her objects from Karlskrona and Gefle bear only a factory stamp and decorative name."Copied from www.signaturer.se.