Lindgreen studied at the Art Academy in The Hague and at the New Art School in Amsterdam. His mentors, Paul Citroen (in the Netherlands) and the expressionist J.D. Kirszenbaum (in Paris), became his lifelong friends. He was part of different artists' societies, among which Pulchri Studio, De Haagse Kunstkring, and De Haagse Aquarellisten. The latter, which he co-founded in 1955, played a leading part in his life for over 40 years.


As an artist, he remained aware of his responsibility towards society. Realising it was too difficult to live off art with four children, he consequently took a job at the State Printing Press whilst studying graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After he received a grant for a study trip to Rome, he became an art teacher and started working in secondary schools in 1961. For that reason, between then, and his retirement in 1978, he painted mainly in his spare time and during school holidays.
For inspiration, he often travelled abroad, especially to France, Austria, Switzerland and Spain, but he also found his subjects in The Netherlands. In 1955, he initiated the founding of the group De Haagse Aquarellisten. From then on, he painted aquarelles in a naturalistic style without using Indian ink. Occasionally he returned to his former expressive style. In 1989 he suddenly took another road and started to express his musical feelings in abstract-figurative compositions using acrylic paint.
Adapted from the introduction of the book "Kunst om te bevrijden en te bezielen, 2009".
Edited by Elsa and Ronald A. Lindgreen
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