Rikard Lindstrom - Artist Info

About Rikard Lindstrom

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    Richard Lindstrom studied at the Art Academy in Copenhagen and Paris. He has painted coastal images of sailors and marines in impressionist style and also has worked as a writer. His work is in the National Museum in Stockholm, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Thiel Gallery and Museum of City of Stockholm, Norrkoping Museum, and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.

    He is also the inventor of the first prototype of a composting toilet, now manufacture with the name of Clivus Multrum, which reflects the name of its marketing company and which incorporates the word clivus, which is Latin for incline or slope. Lindstrom built the model in 1939 in Tyresö, Sweden when he, an art teacher who owned a property on the Baltic Sea in Stock...

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