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)
HIT, 1971

Richard Lindner

HIT, 1971

Sale Date: June 12, 1993

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FUN CITY, 1971

Richard Lindner

FUN CITY, 1971

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Head, 1948

Richard Lindner

Head, 1948

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Man walking a rooster by a crescent moon

Richard Lindner

Man walking a rooster by a crescent moon

Sale Date: June 8, 1993

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ACE OF CLUBS, 1977

Richard Lindner

ACE OF CLUBS, 1977

Sale Date: May 27, 1993

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SHOOT, 1971

Richard Lindner

SHOOT, 1971

Sale Date: May 27, 1993

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ON

Richard Lindner

ON

Sale Date: May 20, 1993

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Untitled, 1936

Richard Lindner

Untitled, 1936

Sale Date: May 7, 1993

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ANGEL IN ME, 1966

Richard Lindner

ANGEL IN ME, 1966

Sale Date: May 5, 1993

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THANK YOU, 1971

Richard Lindner

THANK YOU, 1971

Sale Date: May 3, 1993

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MISS AMERICAN INDIAN

Richard Lindner

MISS AMERICAN INDIAN

Sale Date: April 24, 1993

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NEW-YORK CITY

Richard Lindner

NEW-YORK CITY

Sale Date: April 4, 1993

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AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT..., 1975–1976

Richard Lindner

AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT..., 1975–1976

Sale Date: April 3, 1993

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BARTIGER

Richard Lindner

BARTIGER

Sale Date: March 27, 1993

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FEMME DU 20EME SIECLE

Richard Lindner

FEMME DU 20EME SIECLE

Sale Date: March 24, 1993

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MAN'S BEST FRIEND, 1970

Richard Lindner

MAN'S BEST FRIEND, 1970

Sale Date: March 20, 1993

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BANNER #3, 1968

Richard Lindner

BANNER #3, 1968

Sale Date: February 12, 1993

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New York City

Richard Lindner

New York City

Sale Date: January 28, 1993

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Richard Lindner

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Sale Date: December 12, 1992

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Untitled, 1977

Richard Lindner

Untitled, 1977

Sale Date: December 12, 1992

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ACE OF CLUBS  FUN CITY (THE TITLE..., 1971–1977

Richard Lindner

ACE OF CLUBS FUN CITY (THE TITLE..., 1971–1977

Sale Date: December 4, 1992

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MISS AMERICAN INDIAN

Richard Lindner

MISS AMERICAN INDIAN

Sale Date: December 5, 1992

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BELL BOY, 1964

Richard Lindner

BELL BOY, 1964

Sale Date: December 1, 1992

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PLAKAT VANCOUVER 1064

Richard Lindner

PLAKAT VANCOUVER 1064

Sale Date: December 1, 1992

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