Couple (Primary Title)
Richard Lindner, American, born Germany, 1901 - 1978 (Artist)
“I carry along, like all the other Europeans, the burden of the past. I went through European schools and academies, you know, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” –Richard Lindner
Born and raised in Germany, Lindner studied art during the 1920s in Nuremburg and Munich. In 1933, he fled to Paris, where he discovered the French avant-garde, worked as a commercial artist, and served in the French army. In 1941, he made his way to New York, finding success as a book and magazine illustrator before becoming a painter and distinguished art professor.
Painted the year before his death, Couple reflects Lindner’s late-career focus on the sexual symbolism of contemporary advertising and urban life, while also suggesting his ongoing interest in the ambiguous eroticism of early 20th-century German theater and cinema.
"Falling in Love Again", VMFA, Phillip Morris Gallery, July 1 - September 25, 1994
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass.: "A Figurative Perspective: Recent Paintings and Sculpture from the Virginia Museum," 12 March - 21 May 1989
Bedford Gallery, Longwood College, Farmville VA, 17 Jan - 19 Feb 1988
"Richard Lindner", St. Paul, 1979
"Exh. of Recent Work by Richard Lindner", Sidney Janis, NY< April 6 - May 6, 1978
"Derrier Le Miroir", Paris, Galeries Maeght, 1977
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