Greta Amalia Fahlcrantz Lindberg (

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, April 3, 1889 – Stockholm, March 13, 1978) was a

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painter and sculptor. Daughter of actor Herman Grip and Ada Fallstedt, Fahlcrantz studied with

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and married lawyer Hugo Fahlcrant in 1912. The marriage failed in 1919, the same year in which she began study with

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. In 1921 she married

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, with whom she had three children. She lived in

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and

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, and was active as a teacher as well as an artist. Eventually she moved back to Stockholm. During her career Fahlcrantz was active primarily as a portraitist, but she also modeled some busts, reliefs and other sculptural style molds during her career. She is represented in the collection of the Nationalmuseet. A portrait by Fahlcrantz of

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, painted in 1920, is in the portrait collection of Gripsholm Castle.

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