Bengt Lindstrom - Artist Info

About Bengt Lindstrom

Name variants

Bengt Lindstroem, Bengt Linstrom
  • Biography

    Bengt Lindström (b. Storsjo Kapell, Sweden, September 3,1925; d. Njurunda, Sweden, January 29, 2008)

    He was one of Sweden's best-known contemporary artists with a style of distinct colors and figurative works often with distorted faces. He is also well known for outdoor decorations, mural paintings and colorful sculpture. One of his most famous sculptures is the massive Y-sculpture at Midlanda Airport north of Sundsvall, Sweden.

    He was born in Storsjo Kapell, Sweden, in 1925, and in 1944 moved to Stockholm where he studied at the art school of Issac Grünewald (a student of Matisse). He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and finally completed his studies under the artists Fernand Léger and André Loh...

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