artist: Jörgen Lindgren (Swedish 1927-1998)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 45 x 31 cm canvas size / 56 x 42 cm framed size (approx)
signed and dated 1967
presented in its original frame with restored / repainted inner liner frame
AU $1195 (approx US $530 / 490 EUROS / 83,500 yen / 420 GBP - for exact current value visit xe.com)
artist biography
Bengt Jörgen Lindgren was born February 9, 1927 in Gothenburg. He was a Swedish painter, print maker, illustrator and graphic artist.
Lindgren studied visual arts at Slöjdföreningen's school in Gothenburg from 1944 to 1948 and at Valands konstskola (art school) in 1950 and 1951. He took private study trips to the Netherlands and Belgium in 1947, Norway in 1952 and France in 1953.
Lindgren participated in the exhibition Ung grafik at Lorensberg in 1949, 5 Göteborgsmålare (5 Gothenburg Painters) at the Eskilstuna Art Museum and with Sex Göteborgare (Six Gothenburgers) in Borås and Ulricehamn. He won first prize in the competition for the decoration of Folkets hus in Trollhättan in 1955.
Lindgren worked as a teacher of visual arts at Slöjdföreningen's school from 1949 to 1975, he was also from 1954 to 1975 a special teacher of freehand drawing at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. As an illustrator, he illustrated Sten Karling's book Borås Kyrkor.
Among his public artworks are the Glasmuseet Växjö, the Reningsverket in Lackarebäck, SEB, Värnamo, the Long-term care clinic in Alingsås, the Småland museum, Snäckspiral for Gothenburg's waterworks and a large (55 x 3 metre) non-representative mural in the Medborgarhuset, Högsbotorp.
Examples of Lindgren's work are held in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg Art Museum, the Småland Museum, as well as at the National Museum in Stockholm [with five book volumes composed together with Nils Lindes Kgl. Court bookbindery.
Lindgren was married to the artist Inga-Louise Lindgren (1928–2014).
He passed away on September 25, 1998 in Lerum.