Designer · Sweden · 1927–1998
Walter Bengtsson
Walter Bengtsson (1927–1998) – Swedish sculptor, painter and graphic artist from Halmstad, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1971.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1927–1998
- Country
- Sweden
Walter Bengtsson was a sculptor, painter and graphic artist associated with Halmstad. From 1954 to 1958, he studied at the Valand School in Gothenburg, and from 1959 – immediately after completing his studies at Valand – at Milan's Accademia di Brera under Marino Marini. For nearly 40 years, he worked at the Ateljé Bastaskär studio in Grötvik, now maintained by a foundation he established with his wife Ullabritt in 1998.
In 1971, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. He is known above all for monumental sculptures – Halmstad is home to, among others, “Duke Knut”, the fountain “Laxen går upp” (“The Salmon Swims Upstream”) by Slottsbron, and “Läkekonstens historia” (“The History of Medicine”), while the Kaknästornet tower in Stockholm features “Spelrum Futurum”. Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, which describes him as a sculptor, holds his 1972 work “Blåsare I” (“Blower I”). Regional sources also describe him as a painter and graphic artist, although it was above all his sculptural works in public spaces that brought him recognition.
He should not be confused with Walter Bengtsson (1900–1993), recorded in Nationalmuseum as the director of AB Fixfabriken.
