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)

Blinder mit Hahn (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

Blinder mit Hahn (from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: October 29, 2010

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Untitled (album of 9 works w/ title page and...

Richard Lindner

Untitled (album of 9 works w/ title page and...

Sale Date: October 27, 2010

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Fun city (album of 10 works w/ title page and...

Richard Lindner

Fun city (album of 10 works w/ title page and...

Sale Date: October 27, 2010

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Fun city (album of 8 works w/ title page and...

Richard Lindner

Fun city (album of 8 works w/ title page and...

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Untitled (album of 10 works w/ title page and...

Richard Lindner

Untitled (album of 10 works w/ title page and...

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Banner no.4, 1971

Richard Lindner

Banner no.4, 1971

Sale Date: October 27, 2010

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Banner #1, 1964

Richard Lindner

Banner #1, 1964

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Banner no.2, 1966

Richard Lindner

Banner no.2, 1966

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One plus one, 1967

Richard Lindner

One plus one, 1967

Sale Date: October 27, 2010

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Gigolo (from Fun city), 1971

Richard Lindner

Gigolo (from Fun city), 1971

Sale Date: October 30, 2010

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Shoot

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: September 1, 2010

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Shoot

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: October 2, 2010

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New York City

Richard Lindner

New York City

Sale Date: October 2, 2010

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Der Rosenkavalier, 1975

Richard Lindner

Der Rosenkavalier, 1975

Sale Date: September 17, 2010

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Indianerin auf rotem Untergrund

Richard Lindner

Indianerin auf rotem Untergrund

Sale Date: September 17, 2010

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Amazone, 1975

Richard Lindner

Amazone, 1975

Sale Date: September 27, 2010

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Fun city: Gigilo

Richard Lindner

Fun city: Gigilo

Sale Date: September 12, 2010

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Untitled, 1975

Richard Lindner

Untitled, 1975

Sale Date: May 15, 2008

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Tête d'homme, 1973

Richard Lindner

Tête d'homme, 1973

Sale Date: September 18, 2010

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Miss American Indian, 1970

Richard Lindner

Miss American Indian, 1970

Sale Date: September 18, 2010

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Nude in art (+ Marily was here, collotype on , 1964

Richard Lindner

Nude in art (+ Marily was here, collotype on , 1964

Sale Date: September 18, 2010

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The snake, 1971

Richard Lindner

The snake, 1971

Sale Date: September 18, 2010

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Der rosenkavalier, 1977

Richard Lindner

Der rosenkavalier, 1977

Sale Date: June 24, 2009

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Leopard Lily, 1966

Richard Lindner

Leopard Lily, 1966

Sale Date: June 28, 2010

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