Richard Lindner, “Profile”, from Lindner’s “After Noon” Portfolio, Edition 250
Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg, Germany to an American mother and German father. He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1925. Fleeing Nazi Germany, Lindner moved to the USA, and worked as a magazine illustrator for Vogue, Fortune and Harper’s Bazaar.
In 1952 he began his career as a painter. Critiques have call Lindner’s work “mechanistic cubism.” Streetwalkers, continental circus women, and men in uniforms are Linder’s primary subject matter. Richard Lindner taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Yale University.
Lindner’s work was influential to an entire generation, and he was honored by the Beatles, who included him in the second row of people depicted on the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band LP cover. He died in 1978.