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 letter (from Untitled), 1975

Richard Lindner

The letter (from Untitled), 1975

Sale Date: July 17, 2005

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The letter (from Untitled), 1975

Richard Lindner

The letter (from Untitled), 1975

Sale Date: August 14, 2005

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Shoot, Fun City

Richard Lindner

Shoot, Fun City

Sale Date: January 29, 2006

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The mask, 1971

Richard Lindner

The mask, 1971

Sale Date: February 3, 2012

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We are all one, 1967

Richard Lindner

We are all one, 1967

Sale Date: December 14, 2011

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Portrait no. 2 (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Portrait no. 2 (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: December 14, 2011

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Woman with yellow handbag (from Ionesco), 1975

Richard Lindner

Woman with yellow handbag (from Ionesco), 1975

Sale Date: December 3, 2011

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Corsage, 1971

Richard Lindner

Corsage, 1971

Sale Date: November 26, 2011

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Man, 1964

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: November 24, 2011

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Girl (Untitled), 1969

Richard Lindner

Girl (Untitled), 1969

Sale Date: November 9, 2011

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Woman, 1968

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: November 9, 2011

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Untitled, 1966

Richard Lindner

Untitled, 1966

Sale Date: October 13, 2011

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Fatal stop (triptych), 1968

Richard Lindner

Fatal stop (triptych), 1968

Sale Date: October 13, 2011

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Hit, 1971

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: October 13, 2011

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Richard Lindner

Profile (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Portrait no. 2 (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Portrait no. 2 (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Portrait no. 1 (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Portrait no. 1 (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Miss American Indian (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Miss American Indian (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Man's best friend (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Man's best friend (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Heart (from After noon), 1969

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Heart (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Circle and pillow (from After noon), 1969

Richard Lindner

Circle and pillow (from After noon), 1969

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Two profiles, 1972

Richard Lindner

Two profiles, 1972

Sale Date: September 22, 2011

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Jacket of Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner, New..., 1967

Richard Lindner

Jacket of Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner, New..., 1967

Sale Date: September 22, 2011

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Untitled (Two male heads), 1964

Richard Lindner

Untitled (Two male heads), 1964

Sale Date: September 22, 2011

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