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)

The Heart, 1969

Richard Lindner

The Heart, 1969

Sale Date: November 14, 2013

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Man Walking a Rooster by a Crescent Moon, 1971

Richard Lindner

Man Walking a Rooster by a Crescent Moon, 1971

Sale Date: November 14, 2013

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Fun City, N.Y.C, 1971

Richard Lindner

Fun City, N.Y.C, 1971

Sale Date: November 14, 2013

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Lady and the lion (Woman in corset), 1950

Richard Lindner

Lady and the lion (Woman in corset), 1950

Sale Date: November 14, 2013

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On (New York City), 1968

Richard Lindner

On (New York City), 1968

Sale Date: October 17, 2013

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Miss American Indian, 1969

Richard Lindner

Miss American Indian, 1969

Sale Date: October 17, 2013

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Ohne Titel

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: November 6, 2013

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Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: November 3, 2013

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Talk to me, 1969

Richard Lindner

Talk to me, 1969

Sale Date: October 26, 2013

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Uptown, 1969

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: September 19, 2013

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Untitled (from Fun City)(5 works), Untitled..., 1971

Richard Lindner

Untitled (from Fun City)(5 works), Untitled..., 1971

Sale Date: September 19, 2013

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Heart, 1969

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: July 27, 2013

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Rencontre

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 27, 2013

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Heart, 1969

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 23, 2013

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Untitled, 1966

Richard Lindner

Untitled, 1966

Sale Date: June 19, 2013

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Richard Lindner

Profile (from the After noon), 1969

Sale Date: June 19, 2013

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Untitled

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 13, 2013

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Untitled 1975. Dix lithographies en..., 1975

Richard Lindner

Untitled 1975. Dix lithographies en..., 1975

Sale Date: June 14, 2013

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Marilyn was here (set of 17), 1970

Richard Lindner

Marilyn was here (set of 17), 1970

Sale Date: June 14, 2013

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St. Marks Place (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Richard Lindner

St. Marks Place (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Sale Date: May 25, 2013

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Busenengel, 1970

Richard Lindner

Busenengel, 1970

Sale Date: June 7, 2013

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Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

Hit (from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: May 16, 2013

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Woman and Handbag, 1964

Richard Lindner

Woman and Handbag, 1964

Sale Date: May 16, 2013

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Masked Man, 1968

Richard Lindner

Masked Man, 1968

Sale Date: April 24, 2013

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