Richard Lindner

RICHARD LINDNER (Hamburg, 1901 - New York, 1978).
"Femme sur fond Jaune, 1975.
Lithograph on paper. Copy 62/125.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Measurements. 71 x 51 cm; 80 x 63 cm (frame).
Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother Mina Lindner was American and was born in New York as the daughter of German parents. In 1905, the family moved to Nuremberg, where Lindner's mother owned a custom-made corsetry business and Richard Lindner grew up and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts), now the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts. From 1924 to 1927 he lived in Munich and studied there from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. In 1927, Lindner moved to Berlin and remained there until 1928, when he returned to Munich to become art director of a publishing house. He remained in Munich until 1933, when he was forced to flee to Paris. Once in Paris, Lindner became politically engaged, sought contact with French artists and made a living as a commercial artist. He was interned when World War II broke out in 1939 and later served in the French army. In 1941, Lindner moved to the United States and worked in New York City as a book and magazine illustrator. There she came into contact with New York artists and German émigrés such as Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich and Saul Steinberg. In 1948, Lindner became an American citizen. Richard Lindner's artistic universe is unique: it is very genuine, full of urban energy, driven by a strange eroticism... Richard Lindner began his career as an artist, eventually at the age of 40 in New York. In this metropolitan jungle, Lindner created his work: exciting and powerful images of robot-like figures, Amazons and heroines, harlequins of self-styled heroes - his artistic panorama of the unruly 60s and 70s of the 20th century."