Fritz Lindström

August Fredrik (Fritz) Lindström ( born July 5, 1874 in Stockholm, † January 4, 1962 in Arvika ) was a Swedish painter.

Life and work

Fritz Lindström was born in 1874 in Stockholm. He walked the decorative painter Carl Grabow (1847-1922) in the teaching and then attended the School of the Swedish Konstnärsförbundet 1892-94 and 1895-96 as well as the art school Valand in Gothenburg 1894-1895. In the following years he deepened his studies abroad (Copenhagen and Paris).

In 1903 he moved with his fiancée Anna Wretman and two young children after Rackstad on värmländiscchen Racken lake, where he joined the artist colony Racke groups joined. The landscape around the lake Racken was an important source of inspiration for his landscapes. But stayed out of the public success, and the first time was marked by financial problems. In contrast, his portraits attracted attention, and the portrait painting became the most important source of income.

Anna died in 1909 Wretman, which led to a strengthening of his psychological problems ( neurasthenia ). The next few years were at times marked by depression and apathy. In 1916 he married Ellen Gunhilda Hallén, and the decades have been very productive, both in regards landscape painting and portraiture. In the early 1950s grew the interest in his landscapes, and in 1952 he was invited to participate with their own retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Liljevalch Spring Salon.

Painting by Fritz Lindström et al are the Swedish National Museum, in the Thielska galleriet in Stockholm to find the Gothenburg Art Museum and the province of Värmland Museum.