Fredrik Olaus Lindström (21 March 1847 – 6 November 1919) was a

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and artist.

Life

Lindström was born in

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, Sweden. He studied at the

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in 1865–1873. He worked as an architect in Stockholm 1876–1888, in

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as a city architect in 1888–1893, in

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in 1893–1897, then again in Stockholm. He was hired as city architect in

to lead the rebuilding of the town after the great fire in 1888. There he designed buildings including

Umeå Town Hall Umeå Town Hall ( sv, Umeå rådhus) was built after the fire in 1888 that burnt the city to the ground. It was erected on the site where the previous town hall (built in the 17th century) had been located and was completed in 1890. The archit ...

and

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, among others. Lindström was also a talented artist. A gouache portrait by him of the writer

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(1811–1868) is in the Swedish National Museum.August Blanche
Swedish National Museum, retrieved 3 May 2013

Notes and references

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