Bengt Lindström was a Swedish painter and lithographer (1925-2008).
From 1944 to 1946, Bengt Lindström studied at the Isaac Grünewald School of Art in Stockholm and the Copenhagen School of Fine Arts.
His first solo exhibition took place in Stockholm in 1945.
In 1946, he travels to the United States and takes courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. He discovered France in 1947, living between Sweden and Paris, and later Savigny-sur-Orge.
In 1947 and 1948, he enrolled at Fernand Léger's studio and at the André Lhote Academy in Paris.
Bengt Lindström's first works (1946-1959), portraits and self-portraits, are figurative. His style became more refined in the late 1950s. He uses large buckets of pure colors: blue, red, yellow, green and white. He works around the canvas, mounted on a stretcher and placed on the floor. He paints very quickly, with a lot of material, almost sculpting the paint.
Bengt Lindström has painted many portraits of contemporary writers and philosophers, such as Oscar Wilde (1966), André Gide (1968), Claude Levi-Strauss (1989)...
He draws his inspiration from landscapes, as well as from Scandinavian and Lappish mythology: masks, gods, monsters and Valkyries populate his works.
In the early 80s, he began sculpting small painted heads in papier-mâché.
In 2003, following an illness, Bengt Lindström lost his ability to paint. However, numerous exhibitions are still organized throughout Europe.