Bidspirit auction | Richard Lindner, German (1901-1978), New

Richard Lindner, German (1901-1978), New York Men from the Fun City Portfolio, 1971, lithograph with - Richard Lindner German (1901-1978) New York Men from the Fun City Portfolio, 1971 lithograph with collotype on wove paper Pencil signed lower right, numbered 240/250 lower left. Biography from the Archives of askART: Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg, West Germany in 1901 and grew up in Nuremberg, Germany. As a boy of eleven he was abducted by a beautiful twenty-year old actress. He studied at the Hamburg School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1922 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1924. He narrowly escaped execution as a Jewish exile in France during World War II, emigrating to the United States in 1941. He worked for more than ten years as a commercial illustrator for Vogue Magazine from 1941 to 1950. He had his first one-man show at the age of fifty-three. He taught at Pratt Institute in New York City from 1951 to 1965. Lindner's work started out being sophisticated, unique and terribly disturbing, concerned with European alienation. His later work digs deep into the American heart; it evokes the uneasy coexistence between technology and sexuality. The canvases are beautifully engineered. Their symmetry meshes perfectly, colors are metallic and people are often part machine. Lindner died in 1978. Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Sources include: Newsweek, May 23, 1977 Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, 1986-87 25 1/4”H x 19 3/4”W