“Room for Rent” Signed Mixed Media Collage on Paper by Richard Lindner

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Fab Richard Lindner unique mixed media collage on paper titled room for rent signed measuring 8.5 inches x 11.5 inches … Read more Fab Richard Lindner unique mixed media collage on paper titled room for rent signed measuring 8.5 inches x 11.5 inches in good vintage condition. Hand drawn original art measuring 8.5 X 11.5 . Signed in pencil by the artist . This is an original collage made by the artist acquired from an estate . Richard Lindner was born in 1901 in Hamburg. His mother was American. He grew up in Nuremberg and studied there at the Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1924 to 1927 he lived in Munich and studied there from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. He moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1928 when he returned to Munich to become art director of a publishing firm. He remained there until 1933 when he was forced to flee to Paris, where he was interned when the war broke out in 1939 and later served in the French army. In 1941 he went to the USA, worked in New York as an illustrator of books and magazines and made contact with New York artists and German emigrants. In 1948 he became an American citizen. From 1952, he taught at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, from 1967 at Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven. In 1965 he became Guest Professor at the Akademie fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg. Richard Lindner died in 1978. See less