Designer · Sweden · 1925–2008
Bengt Lindström
Bengt Lindström (1925–2008) – Swedish painter and printmaker associated with Paris, creator of expressive masks and figures from Norse mythology.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1925–2008
- Country
- Sweden
Bengt Lindström was born on 3 September 1925 in Storsjö, Härjedalen. From 1944, he studied under Isaac Grünewald in Stockholm, drawing under Aksel Jørgensen in Copenhagen, and in 1946 at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the end of the 1940s, he moved to Paris; from 1953, he lived in France, and from 1968, divided his time between France and his studio in Sundsvall.
He painted masks, deities and monsters – his work reflects influences from Nordic and Sámi culture and the CoBrA group; he was friends with Asger Jorn. In the 1960s, he created lithographs on Scandinavian mythology, including the portfolio “Eddan, Eddan, Eddan”. From the late 1970s, he designed glass for Kosta Boda, and watches for Swatch in 1995 and 2000.
His painting “Red Man” (1968) is in the collection of Tate in London, while the “Great Aesir” series is held by the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. He exhibited, among others, at the Gothenburg Museum of Art (1966), the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1967) and the Musée Galliera in Paris (1973). He died on 29 January 2008 in Sundsvall.
