Bibi Lindström

Birgit "Bibi" Lindström (born June 30, 1904 in Arbrå , Sweden ; † November 4, 1984 in Stockholm ) was a versatile Swedish artist who had worked as an architect , set designer , painter and film architect . With an oeuvre of sets for around 150 cinema and television films in four decades, it was considered extremely productive.

Live and act

Bibi Lindström received her first artistic and architectural training in 1922/23 at the Munich training workshops and then, from 1923 to 1926, at the Technical University in Stockholm . In 1926 she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Art (Kungliga Konsthögskolan) and concentrated on the decorative arts. Already here Lindström's great technical skills crystallized, and she was given a scholarship for study trips to Germany, Italy and France . She then gained practical experience in the field of stage design (1931/32) at Gösta Ekmans Theater. Together with the Swedish architect Viking Göransson (1900–1985), whom she married in 1929 (divorced in 1953), Bibi Lindström took part in the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930 , an important exhibition for architecture, design and handicrafts under the sign of modernism. In 1938 she took part in another art exhibition, this time in New York City , where she was awarded a prize. She then stayed in the American metropolis for a while and took over follow-up offers. In later years, too, Lindström repeatedly went on excursions into non-film art directions; For example, she created several oil paintings and fabric samples for furniture.

Shortly after the start of the sound film age in Sweden in the early 1930s, Bibi Lindström could be won over for the film. As a film architect, from then on she designed the buildings for an abundance of initially quite low-quality entertainment productions and worked in her four decades-long creative period with the most famous directors in her country, including Schamyl Bauman , Olof Molander , Rolf Husberg , Hasse Ekman , Alf Sjöberg and, again and again, Arne Mattsson , whose (because of a brief nude scene) critically acclaimed film scandal love story She danced just one summer also outfitted her. Bibi Lindström also provided the backdrop designs for some of the works by star director Ingmar Bergman ( Evening of Jugglers , Nahe dem Leben , Persona ) and for Sjöberg's celebrated Stindberg adaptation, Miss Julie . In later years she designed several sets for television and also went on trips to the theater as a set designer (including The Teahouse of the August Moon , 1954, Mary Mary , 1963, Barefoot in the Park , 1965). At almost 70 years of age, the doyenne withdrew into private life under Sweden's film architects.

Filmography

• 1932: Muntra musician
• 1933: The farliga leken
• 1933: Lördagskvällar
• 1934: Kvinnorna kring Larsson
• 1935: Flickor på factory
• 1936: Rendezvous in Paradise ( Skeppsbrutne Max )
• 1938: Sol över Sverige
• 1939: Efterlyst
• 1939: We two ( Vi två )
• 1939: Hennes melodi
• 1940: Mannen som alla ville mörda
• 1941: En greasy military
• 1941: Kvinna ombord
• 1942: Rospiggar
• 1942: Varat common
• 1942: The pastor of the derailed ( Kvinnor i fångenskap )
• 1943: En melodi om våren
• 1943: På liv och död
• 1943: Örlogsmän
• 1944: Lilla helgonet
• 1944: Prins Gustaf
• 1945: The children from the torrent rock ( Barnen från Frostmofjället )
• 1945: Rosen på Tistelön
• 1946: I dödens väntrum
• 1946: Kvinnor i vantrum
• 1947: Maria
• 1947: Master detective Kalle Blomquist (master detective Blomkvist )
• 1948: Sinful Love ( Banquets )
• 1948: Marknadsafton
• 1949: Männniskors Rike
• 1949: Sjöslåvar
• 1950: Kalle and the diamond smugglers ( Anderssonskans Kalle )
• 1950: The girl with hyacinths ( Flicka och hyacinter )
• 1951: Miss Julie ( Fröken Julie )
• 1951: She only danced one summer ( Hon dansade en sommar )
• 1952: You shall not covet ( Hård sounded )
• 1952: It happened out of hot childhood love ( For min heta ungdoms skull )
• 1952: Barabbas - the man in the dark ( Barabbas )
• 1953: Evening of the jugglers ( Gycklarnas afton )
• 1953: The fruits of love ( Ogift fader söker )
• 1953: The Price of Fame ( Skuggan )
• 1954: Karin Mansdotter ( Karin Månsdotter )
• 1954: Salka Valka
• 1954: Young Summer ( Ung sommar )
• 1955: Hemsöborna
• 1955: Summer nights in Sweden ( Ute blåser sommarvind )
• 1956: Lille Fridolf och Jag
• 1956: Litet bo
• 1957: Tarps Elin
• 1957: When the Mists Fall ( Damen i svart )
• 1957: Near Life ( Nära livet )
• 1958: Mannequin in red ( Mannekäng i rött )
• 1958: Carter of Death ( Körkarlen )
• 1959: The Countess with the Whip ( Ryttare i blått )
• 1959: Woman as desired ( Den kära leken )
• 1960: Wedding with delay ( Bröllopsdagen )
• 1960: The judge ( Domaren )
• 1960: Summer and sinners ( Sommar och syndare )
• 1961: Pärlemor
• 1961: The Adventures of Nils Holgersson ( Nils Holgerssons underbara resa )
• 1962: Siska
• 1962: Lyckan kommer (TV movie)
• 1963: Societetshuset (TV series)
• 1964: Klänningen
• 1965: Persona
• 1966: Patrasket (TV movie)
• 1966: Candida (TV movie)
• 1962–67: Holidays on Crows Island ( Vi på Saltkrokan , TV series)
• 1967: Glasmenageriet (TV movie)
• 1967: Doctor Glas ( Dr. Glas )
• 1968: Nina (TV movie)
• 1968: ABC (TV movie)
• 1969: faders
• 1969: Miss and Mrs. Sweden
• 1970: Circulating the magiska
• 1971: Leka mied elden (TV movie)
• 1972: Ture Sventon - private detective
• 1973: Den vita stenen (TV multi-part)

literature

• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (Ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 5: Denmark - Finland - Norway - Sweden (from the beginnings to 1945). KG Saur, Munich-New York-London-Paris 1986, p. 382 ff.

Web links

• Bibi Lindström short biography in the Swedish film database
• Bibi Lindström in the Internet Movie Database (English)