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Richard Lindner
Portrait #1 from After Noon suite

1976

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This artwork titled "Portrait #1" from the suite "After Noon" 1976, is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by artist Richard Lindner (German/American 1901-1978) It is hand signed and numbered 78/250 in pencil by the artist. Published by Shorewood Atelier LTD, New York. The image size is 23.75 x 20 inches, sheet size is 28 x 21.75 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born in 1901 at Hamburg, Germany, Richard Lindner became a fine-art painter of hard-edge abstract figures, a fashion illustrator and art educator. His signature figural works reflect his perception of the un-fulfillment of pop culture and are shown in surreal settings with garish bright colors, flat forms and faces with severe expressions. Among them are streetwalkers, military personnel, mannequins and circus performers---all looking mechanical and unhappy. Richard Lindner spent his childhood in Nuremberg and studied there at the Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1924 to 1927 he lived in Munich where he studied from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. He moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1928 and then 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. Richard Lindner was interred when the war broke out in 1939 and later served in the French army. In 1941 he went to America where he worked in New York as an illustrator of books and magazines and made contact with New York artists and German emigrants. In 1948 he became an American citizen. From 1952 to 1967, Lindner taught at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and from 1967 at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven. In 1965 he became Guest Professor at the Akademie für Bildende Künste, Hamburg. His paintings at this time used the sexual symbolism of advertising and investigated definitions of gender roles in the media. Richard Lindner died in 1978. SELECTED MUSEUMS - Tate Gallery, London - Smithsonian - Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC - Walker Art Center, Minnesota - Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
  • Creator:
    Richard Lindner (1901-1978, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1976
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Lind/por/011stDibs: LU666310358452

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