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)

Corsage, 1971

Richard Lindner

Corsage, 1971

Sale Date: October 28, 2006

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Uptown (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Richard Lindner

Uptown (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Sale Date: October 28, 2006

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Fifth Avenue (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Richard Lindner

Fifth Avenue (from Fun City, N.Y.), 1971

Sale Date: October 28, 2006

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Femme au coussin, 1971

Richard Lindner

Femme au coussin, 1971

Sale Date: October 22, 2006

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Gesellschaft

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: October 22, 2006

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Ohne Titel, 1971

Richard Lindner

Ohne Titel, 1971

Sale Date: October 12, 2006

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Dompteur

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Verhaftung

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Fun city, N.Y.

Richard Lindner

Fun city, N.Y.

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Heart (from The Afternoon Suite)

Richard Lindner

Heart (from The Afternoon Suite)

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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After noon (portfolio of 7)

Richard Lindner

After noon (portfolio of 7)

Sale Date: September 10, 2006

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Fernand Mourlot, Untitled (album of 10..., 1975

Richard Lindner

Fernand Mourlot, Untitled (album of 10..., 1975

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Fun City (+ 2 others, 79/175; 3 works,..., 1971

Richard Lindner

Fun City (+ 2 others, 79/175; 3 works,..., 1971

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Heart (+ 2 others, 1971, 175/250 and 14/125; , 1969

Richard Lindner

Heart (+ 2 others, 1971, 175/250 and 14/125; , 1969

Sale Date: September 27, 2006

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Heart (from The Afternoon Suite)

Richard Lindner

Heart (from The Afternoon Suite)

Sale Date: June 28, 2006

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Woman

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 23, 2006

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The sorcerer, 1968

Richard Lindner

The sorcerer, 1968

Sale Date: June 23, 2006

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Man and woman

Richard Lindner

Man and woman

Sale Date: June 23, 2006

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Fetish woman, 1971

Richard Lindner

Fetish woman, 1971

Sale Date: June 23, 2006

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Adam and Eve

Richard Lindner

Sale Date: June 23, 2006

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Ohne Titel (portfolio of 10 w/text by Eugène , 1975

Richard Lindner

Ohne Titel (portfolio of 10 w/text by Eugène , 1975

Sale Date: June 2, 2006

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Banner no.1, 1964

Richard Lindner

Banner no.1, 1964

Sale Date: May 21, 2006

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Corsage, 1971

Richard Lindner

Corsage, 1971

Sale Date: May 31, 2006

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First Avenue (from Fun City), 1971

Richard Lindner

First Avenue (from Fun City), 1971

Sale Date: May 31, 2006

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