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Bengt Lindstrom

"I merge with the sea, and it is then that I become a vagabond wave."

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Notes of biography

Bengt Lindstrom was born in 1925 in Storsjo Kappell, Sweeden. He attends the Isaac Grunewald (pupil of Matisse) Art School in Stockholm , the Copenhagen School of Fine Arts from 1944-1946, the Art Institute of Chicago, then trains under artists Fernand Leger in 1947 and Andre Lhote in Paris from 1947-1948. The first canvases of Bengt Lindstrom, portraits and self-portraits, are figurative.
His first solo exhibition is organized in Stockholm in 1954. He makes friends with Bogart, Marfaing, Maryan and Pouget, and later Asger Jorn of whom he will have a certain influence. Lindstrom participates in numerous collective exhibitions in France and abroad. The artist’s style becomes more precise at the end of the 1950’s, he uses big buckets of pure color, moving around his framed canvases which are placed on the ground; the artists executes works using lots of paste, almost sculpting the painting.
In 1962, he participates in the second exhibition of the “Nouvelle Figuration” held in Paris. Two year later, Lindstrom exhibits with the North-South group. Over a period of several years, the painter produces a portrait gallery of writers and philosophers, such as Oscar Wilde, Gide, Claude Levi-Strauss, etc. He paints landscapes inspired by his memories of the harsh landscape of northern Sweden and mythological figures of Scandinavia and Lapland.
In the 80’s, Lindstrom sculpts small “papier-mâché” Heads that he paints, and jewelry. In 1948 he discovers the engraved works of Chagall and the first “Popes” of Francis Bacon, Lindstrom produces during this period his first lithographs. Bengt Lindstrom invents a world that is for him proper.
From 1947, the artist lived and worked between Sweden and France. Bengt Lindström died in Sweden at the beginning of the year 2008.

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The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
*« Lindström », Kanda Malare, Galleri Kanda Mallare, Jonköping, 1977 All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « B. Lindström, rétrospective », coll., cat. , Musée Galliera, Paris, 1973
  • « Héraklès », Max-Pol Fouchet, Ed. ABCD, Paris, 1977
  • « Bengt Lindström », in revue Opus International, n°75, 1980
  • « B. Lindström », G. Boudaille, coll. L'Autre Musée, Ed. de la Différence, 1984
  • « Bengt Lindström », coll., cat. d'expo., Musée de Salamanque, 1986
  • « Bengt Lindström », coll., cat. d'expo., Musée de Vesoul, 1992
  • « Bengt Lindström : Chasseur d'icebergs », F. de Villandry, Fragments Editions, 1992
  • « Bengt Lindström », A. Bonfand, Ed. de la Différence, Paris, 1993
  • « Bengt Lindström », Françoise Monnin, Ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001
  • « Bengt Lindström, visages », M. Piétri, in Les Cahiers Artémoin n°5, 2001
To read from the artist :
  • « Sept contes pour Melchior », La Différence, Paris 1985
  • « Lindström », Eva-Britt Tiger, dont interview, Fragments Editions, 1998
Website :
No website dedicated to the artist.

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Art movements

+ COBRA / 1948-1952 / Christian Dotremont, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
+ NEW FIGURATION / 1960-1980 / Gilles Aillaud, Christian Babou, John Christoforou, Leonardo Cremonini, François Jousselin, Maryan S. Maryan, Bernard Recalcati, Gérard Tisserand, etc.
All art movements

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