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)

Woman on Yellow Background, 1975

Richard Lindner

Woman on Yellow Background, 1975

Sale Date: October 27, 2012

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Marilyn was here (2 works, 1 in color), 1970

Richard Lindner

Marilyn was here (2 works, 1 in color), 1970

Sale Date: October 27, 2012

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Talk to me, 1969

Richard Lindner

Talk to me, 1969

Sale Date: October 27, 2012

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Untitled (6 works)

Richard Lindner

Untitled (6 works)

Sale Date: December 5, 2010

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Circle and Pillow from the Afternoon Portfolio

Richard Lindner

Circle and Pillow from the Afternoon Portfolio

Sale Date: August 26, 2012

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Miss American Indian, 1970

Richard Lindner

Miss American Indian, 1970

Sale Date: June 27, 2012

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Untitled, From the Fun City portfolio, 1971

Richard Lindner

Untitled, From the Fun City portfolio, 1971

Sale Date: June 10, 2012

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Fetisch Woman, 1971

Richard Lindner

Fetisch Woman, 1971

Sale Date: June 14, 2012

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Ohne Titel (5 works from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

Ohne Titel (5 works from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: June 12, 2012

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Fun City (portfolio of 10), 1971

Richard Lindner

Fun City (portfolio of 10), 1971

Sale Date: May 20, 2012

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Earth Mother, 1967

Richard Lindner

Earth Mother, 1967

Sale Date: June 7, 2012

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To Norma and Bill, 1965

Richard Lindner

To Norma and Bill, 1965

Sale Date: June 7, 2012

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Hit, 1971

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: May 5, 2012

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Uptown, 1969

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: May 5, 2012

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On (New York City), 1968

Richard Lindner

On (New York City), 1968

Sale Date: May 5, 2012

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Shoot, 1969

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: May 5, 2012

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Untitled (4 works), 1969

Richard Lindner

Untitled (4 works), 1969

Sale Date: April 20, 2012

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Eugène Ionesco, Untitled (complete set of 10), 1975

Richard Lindner

Eugène Ionesco, Untitled (complete set of 10), 1975

Sale Date: April 25, 2012

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L'Eperon, 1972

Richard Lindner

L'Eperon, 1972

Sale Date: April 3, 2012

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Room for rent, 1960

Richard Lindner

Room for rent, 1960

Sale Date: March 24, 2012

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Up town (sold with 192b; set of 2), 1971

Richard Lindner

Up town (sold with 192b; set of 2), 1971

Sale Date: March 9, 2012

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Red head, 1970

Richard Lindner

Red head, 1970

Sale Date: February 23, 2012

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Nude art, 1964

Richard Lindner

Nude art, 1964

Sale Date: March 27, 2012

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Earth mother

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: February 29, 2012

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