Lindner, Richard

(11/11/1901 Hamburg-4/16/1978 New York) (Germany / USA)

   Painter, art director, illustrator, and art professor. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Nurem-burg and the Kunstakademie in Munich. Well-known modernist artist who frequently depicted semi-nude and nude female figures, in particular buxom corsetted figures and used sexual images for the world of advertising .

   Source: Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner (New York: Abrams, c1968); Benezit, vol. 8: pp. 1075-1076; Rolf-Gunter Dienst, "Richard Lindner," Art and Artists 5, 2 (August 1970): pp. 54-57; Peter Gorsen, "Der Sexu-alfetisch als Ikone der Versagung; zu dem arbeiten Richard Lindners," in Richard Lingner (Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1974): pp. 28-39; Hilton Kramer, "Lindner's ladies," Playboy(March 1973): pp. 96-101.