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Richard Lindner
Painting is an unconscious autobiography.
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American painter, of German origin, Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg in 1901. After studying music, he performed studies at the Arts and Crafts School in Nuremberg. He began his artistic career as an illustrator and a caricaturist, making cinema posters, advertising drawings and press illustrations. Then he came to Paris ; Richard Lindner was interested in surrealism and discovered the work of
Biography of Richard Lindner
American painter, of German origin, Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg in 1901. After studying music, he performed studies at the Arts and Crafts School in Nuremberg. He began his artistic career as an illustrator and a caricaturist, making cinema posters, advertising drawings and press illustrations. Then he came to Paris ; Richard Lindner was interested in surrealism and discovered the work of Fernand Leger, whose bright colored geometric shapes inspired his own creation. He moved to the United States in 1941, then later he became an American citizen. In the fifties, he decided to devote time to his painting, never locked in any artistic movement, but really close to Pop Art. « I'm particularly interested in the secret relation between man and woman », said the artist. In fact, the woman owned a central place in his work, a woman with assertive make-up, a sexual body and wearing accessories pushed towards an erotism almost fetishist. Lindner affirmed his style during the sixties and obtained a huge success, a style made with vivid and transparent colors. From that time, he was regarded as the precursor of Pop Art. His artwork is really influenced by the German expressionism movement. The artist died in 1978.