Richard Lindner

(American/German, 1901–1978)

Richard Lindner was an American-German artist known for his bizarrely erotic portraits which meld human figures with machine-like elements. With their bold outlines and stretches of gradient color, Lindner’s figures are reminiscent of those by Fernand Léger. The artist’s 1954 painting Boy with Machine was famously used by the French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s as the cover of their book Anti-Oedipus (1972). “An artist must remain a child, with an interest in unimportant things,” he once said. Born on November 11, 1901 in Hamburg, Germany, his family moved to the city of Nuremberg in 1905, where his mother ran a boutique corset shop. A talented musician as a youth, Lindner’s interest in visual art led him to attend the Kunstakademie in Munich, where he studied from 1925 until 1927. In 1929, he became the art director at Knorr & Hirth, a large publishing house, where he worked until 1933. Being of Jewish descent, Lindner fled to Paris to avoid arrest by the Nazi regime during the mid-1930s. In 1941, he moved to New York and worked as an illustrator for numerous publications, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Fortune. By 1952, Lindner had stopped his commercial assignments in order to devote his time completely to painting. The artist died on April 16, 1978 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, among others.

Richard Lindner Artworks

Richard Lindner (1,626 results)

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Richard Lindner

5 Bl.: "Untitled I" (3 works), 1971

Sale Date: November 15, 2017

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SANS TITRE, 1975

Richard Lindner

SANS TITRE, 1975

Sale Date: October 26, 2017

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Out of Towners, 1969, 1969

Richard Lindner

Out of Towners, 1969, 1969

Sale Date: October 30, 2017

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„The heart“ (232/250), „American Indian“..., 1976

Richard Lindner

„The heart“ (232/250), „American Indian“..., 1976

Sale Date: November 8, 2017

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Mann mit weiblichem Akt (together with..., 1972

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Mann mit weiblichem Akt (together with..., 1972

Sale Date: October 13, 2017

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After Noon (8 works), 1976

Richard Lindner

After Noon (8 works), 1976

Sale Date: October 17, 2017

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Fun City (14 works), 1971

Richard Lindner

Fun City (14 works), 1971

Sale Date: October 17, 2017

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Untitled (Eugène Ionescu) (10 works), 1975

Richard Lindner

Untitled (Eugène Ionescu) (10 works), 1975

Sale Date: October 17, 2017

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Banner I (Venus), 1964

Richard Lindner

Banner I (Venus), 1964

Sale Date: September 29, 2017

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Untitled (ten color lithographs), 1975

Richard Lindner

Untitled (ten color lithographs), 1975

Sale Date: September 13, 2017

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Fatal Stop

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 21, 2017

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LENOX HILL HOSPITAL AND SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF..., 1967

Richard Lindner

LENOX HILL HOSPITAL AND SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF..., 1967

Sale Date: June 3, 2017

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Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: June 3, 2017

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MAN, 1964

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 12, 2017

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MASKED MAN, 1968

Richard Lindner

MASKED MAN, 1968

Sale Date: June 12, 2017

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Busenengel, 1970

Richard Lindner

Busenengel, 1970

Sale Date: May 31, 2017

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Letter From New York, 1975

Richard Lindner

Letter From New York, 1975

Sale Date: June 4, 2017

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THE COUPLE, 1955

Richard Lindner

THE COUPLE, 1955

Sale Date: May 31, 2017

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Fun City

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: May 8, 2017

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Talk to me

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: May 13, 2017

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L., circa 1958, 1958

Richard Lindner

L., circa 1958, 1958

Sale Date: March 28, 2017

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Sitzende

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: March 30, 2017

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3 Bl.:

Richard Lindner

3 Bl.: "Untitled I", 1971; "Untitled II",..., 1971

Sale Date: March 30, 2017

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3 Bl.:

Richard Lindner

3 Bl.: "Untitled I", 1971; "Untitled II",..., 1971

Sale Date: March 30, 2017

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