Thomas Dellert Dellacroix - Personal Life

Personal Life

Thomas Dellert was born in Stockholm. His mother Kjerstin Dellert was at the time a famous opera singer and is today the director of the Royal Court Theatre “Confidencen” in Ulriksdal Sweden.

His father Carl Olof Bergh was a businessman, who was the director of the Dellert family company selling office supplies like pens and carbon paper, and created by his grandfather Oscar Dellert in 1922. Through Carl Olof Bergh, and his wife Carina, Thomas has a half sister Christina Bergh -Engström and a half brother Andreas Bergh.

His stepfather Nils Åke Häggbom is a former premier ballet dancer and director of the Royal Swedish Ballet. Today, he runs the Royal Court Theatre “Confidencen“ together with Kjerstin Dellert.

Thomas Dellert grow up in an theatrical atmosphere and was early exposed to world celebrities and the life at the theatre. He would spend afternoons after school watching his mother rehearsals at the Royal Opera. His mother has been a leading Opera star for over 60 years, singing with the most celebrated singers of her generations like Jussi Björling, Nicola Gedda and Birgit Nilsson. Kjerstin Dellert is still performing at the age of 86, recently in the role of Maria Callas in “Master class “ and in 2012 in the role of Miss Julie in the play by the same name by August Strindberg. Thomas Dellert as a child would spend weekends with his grandmother Elisabeth Dellert-Askell and it was her who brought him to the Modern Museum over and over again to look at modern art. This made a strong impression on him, and he soon fell in love with pop artists like Rauschenberg, and Warhol, and surrealists like Marcel Duchamp.

Artists, that would contribute to his later art life style. Thomas also learned a lot by studying the Russian Avant-garde with artists like Alexander Rodchenco, and later his new heroes Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer.

Thomas Dellert-Dellacroix own works of art has been exhibited in both modern art museums and photo museums and in well known galleries around the world, and International art fairs like Miami /Basel, and Le Grand Palais in Paris.

“In my art I do not try to explore the spectra of artistic colors, nor the density between different materials or surfaces, and I find no interest in playing with perspective, or form. My passion lays in a total different artistic expression- in my fascination for the playfulness within trends and “isms”, and the gap between fame and misfortune. Although my art often takes a recognizable form, it never strives to copy- to the contrary. After the first impression when coming across any of my works, you will find a playful and intellectual dialogue with different artists and art movements of the past. By using a well-known language of expression I bridge the familiar of the past with the unknown of the future.” Thomas Dellert-Dellacroix

At age 10 he would already make his first modern art paintings and collage. Already then depicting war and suffering.

Being born only eight years after the end of WW2 Thomas was living in an after war atmosphere full of stories and war documentaries, that he watched on one of the first TV sets in Sweden. This would also become a great influence for his art form he today calls “Documentarism“. Having heard many stories from his grandmother who had lived through two world wars, and his grandfather who participated in the Berlin Olympics in 1936, he got interested in history and storytelling. Thomas was also at an early age exposed to the first documentaries from the liberation of concentration camps and death camps like Dachau and Auschwitz.

Later, that was going to become one of the main themes in his art and created a need to tell that story to future generations. He has worked on his “Shoah” art trying to tell the story of the holocaust for over 30 years. He was chosen to exhibit at the first Holocaust conference held at the Stockholm Culture house and in 2008. Therefore, he had Auschwitz Birkenau closed down for one day to be able to make his short movie “Silent white hell“.

Thomas Dellert has been married two times, first with Tatiana Dellert-Diem and the second time with Agnieszka Dellert. He has two sons - Bengt Oscar Lazer Emanuel (Creative director, Video artist, Light designer, Occult researcher) and August Neon Montgomery (Photographer, Writer) - with Rosie Björkman–Ulfsdotter.

Today, Dellert lives and works in Berlin.