Richard Lindner

Mechanic Body - Lithograph by Richard Lindner - 1970s

1970s

Mechanic Body is an artwork realized by Richard Lindner in the 1970s. Lithograph on paper. Hand-signed on the lower, Numbered, edition of 150 prints. Very good conditions. Richar...

Helios In Boots In Colors is a mixed media artwork realized by Richard Lindner in the 1970s. Pencil and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed on the lower. Very good conditions. Richa...

This is a rare, pencil signed print based upon the original drawing which is illustrated in the catalogue raisonne of Richard Lindner's Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Edited by...

Vintage 1960's Lithograph poster for Vancouver Canada art show. Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg, Germany. In 1905 the family moved to Nuremberg, where Lindners mother was owner of a custom-fitting corset business and Richard Lindner grew up and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts School since 1940 Academy of Fine Arts). From 1924 to 1927 he lived in Munich and studied there from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. In 1927 he moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1928, when he returned to Munich to become art director of a publishing firm. He remained there until 1933, when he was forced to flee to Paris, where he became politically engaged, sought contact with French artists and earned his living as a commercial artist. He was interned when the war broke out in 1939 and later served in the French Army. In 1941 he went to the United States and worked in New York City as an illustrator of books and magazines (Vogue, Fortune and Harper's Bazaar). He began painting seriously in 1952, holding his first one-man exhibit in 1954. His style blends a mechanistic cubism with personal images and haunting symbolism. LIndner maintained contact with the emigre community including New York artists and German emigrants (Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, Saul Steinberg). Though he became a United States citizen in 1948, Lindner considered himself a New Yorker, but not a true American. However, over the course of time, his continental circus women became New York City streetwalkers. New York police...