Fritz Lindström
August Fredrik (Fritz) Lindström (born July 5, 1874 in Stockholm , † January 4, 1962 in Arvika ) was a Swedish painter.
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Fritz Lindström was born in Stockholm in 1874. He was apprenticed to the decorative painter Carl Grabow (1847–1922) and then attended the school of the Swedish Konstnärsförbundet 1892–1894 and 1895–1896 and the Valand art school 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 small children to Rackstad on the Värmland lake Racken, where he joined the Rackengruppen artists ' colony . The landscape around Lake Racken was an important source of inspiration for his landscapes. However, there was no public success and the first time was marked by financial problems. On the other hand, his portraits attracted attention, and portrait painting became the main source of income.
In 1909 Anna Wretman died, which led to an intensification of his psychological problems ( neurasthenia ). The coming years were at times marked by depression and apathy. In 1916 he married Ellen Gunhilda Hallén, and the next few decades were very productive, both in landscape painting and portraiture. At the beginning of the 1950s interest in his landscape paintings also grew, and in 1952 he was invited to take part in the spring salon of the Liljevalch art gallery with his own retrospective exhibition .
Paintings by Fritz Lindström are a. a. in the Swedish National Museum , in the Thielska galleriet in Stockholm, in the Gothenburg Art Museum and in the Provincial Museum Värmland .
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| SURNAME | Lindström, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindström, August Fredrik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1962 |
| Place of death | Arvika |