Richard Lindner
American -German Artist (1901-1978)
American -German Artist (1901-1978)
Signed by artist
c. 1971
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 28 inches
Edition:
At Auction
Estimate
300 - 500 USD
Realized Price
320 USD
Auction Venue/Sale
Hindman, Chicago — Fine Art Fall Selections-Online Only
Sale Date
Nov 19, 2019
Signed by artist
c.1970
Framed: 23 x 29 inches
Inside Frame: 21 x 27 1/2 inches
Edition:
At Auction
Estimate
580 - 700 EUR
Realized Price
Not Sold
Sale
Combas, Koons, Warhol , Indiana, Banksy, Seen, EYEONE, Art contemporain street art.
Auction Venue
Sale Date
Jun 12, 2019
Curious to try something new, Lindner learned the language of colors. His collection of abstract art will introduce you to intriguing concepts and emotions evoked by brushstrokes, shapes, and composition of art. A genre of modernism, abstract art, was founded by Wassily Kadinsky. It represents objects and ideas in an interpretive way.
Signed by artist
c. 1971
Framed: 20 1/4 x 26 inches
Inside Frame: 20 x 25 inches
Edition: 45/175
Estimate
500 - 700 USD
Realized Price
1,000 USD
Auction Venue/Sale
Sale Date
Apr 23, 2020
Signed by artist
c.
Dimensions: 23 1/3 x 28 inches
Edition:
(Flat Image)
At Auction
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Realized Price
1,088 USD
Auction Venue/Sale
Hindman, Chicago — Fine Art + Design Selections – Online Only
Sale Date 2020
Estimate
600 - 800 USD
Realized Price
688 USD
Auction Venue/Sale
Hindman, Chicago — Prints and Multiples
Sale Date
2019
Signed by artist
c. 1969
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 28 inches
Edition: /250
A successful illustrator for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Lindner took up painting in his 50s, drawing on expressionistic exaggeration, Surrealist fantasy, and Cubist manipulations of form. He became known for erotic and enigmatic renderings, first based on memories from his childhood in Germany and later inspired by the vulgar, fetishistic aspects of life in New York. His harsh colors and highly defined outlines exaggerated the garishness of the streetwalkers, circus women, and men in uniform that became his favorite subjects. Overtones of Berlin’s cabaret culture of the 1930s infuse his style. Although his work shares some aspects of Pop art, he avoided the association.
At Auction
Estimate
290 EUR
Realized Price
390 EUR*
Exclusive of Buyer's Premium
Auction Venue/Sale
Schwab Auction House — Art & Antiques Auction
Sale Date
Jan 16, 2021
Estimate
300 - 500 USD
Realized Price
1,200 USD
Auction Venue/Sale
Clarke Auction — Fine Art, Jewelry, Antiques, Asian & Midcentury Auction
Sale Date
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.