Bengt Ivar Crantz was a Swedish painter from Toarp.
Crantz attended Otte Sköld's painting school (Otte Skölds målarskola), Stockholm and took study trips to Italy and France (1948), France and Spain (1949) and Spain in (1951-52). He first exhibited in Gothenburg in 1944. Other exhibitions include Gothenburg (1947) and Stockholm (1950). He was a member of the Dalslands Konstförenings Konstnärsförbund (now Dalslands Konstnärsförbund) artist group (est. 1935) and exhibited with them frequently from the late 1940s and was involved in their 40th anniversary exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm in 1975.
Examples of Crantz's works are held in the collections of Nationalmuseum (National Museum) and the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art), Stockholm and Herman Gotthardt's art collection at the Malmö Art Museum.
Bengt Ivar Crantz died in 2001, aged 84.
NOTE: available w/c 16 November 2026
Artist: Bengt Crantz (1916–2001)
Medium: Oil on canvas, framed
Origin: Sweden
Period: Unknown
Dimensions: Frame: 70 x 58 cm
Condition: Vintage condition, craquelure, use- and age-related wear
Bengt Ivar Crantz was a Swedish painter from Toarp.
Crantz attended Otte Sköld's painting school (Otte Skölds målarskola), Stockholm and took study trips to Italy and France (1948), France and Spain (1949) and Spain in (1951-52). He first exhibited in Gothenburg in 1944. Other exhibitions include Gothenburg (1947) and Stockholm (1950). He was a member of the Dalslands Konstförenings Konstnärsförbund (now Dalslands Konstnärsförbund) artist group (est. 1935) and exhibited with them frequently from the late 1940s and was involved in their 40th anniversary exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm in 1975.
Examples of Crantz's works are held in the collections of Nationalmuseum (National Museum) and the Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art), Stockholm and Herman Gotthardt's art collection at the Malmö Art Museum.
Bengt Ivar Crantz died in 2001, aged 84.
NOTE: available w/c 16 November 2026
Artist: Bengt Crantz (1916–2001)
Medium: Oil on canvas, framed
Origin: Sweden
Period: Unknown
Dimensions: Frame: 70 x 58 cm
Condition: Vintage condition, craquelure, use- and age-related wear
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