Richard Lindner (1901-1978) German/American, Triptych. Provenance: Rose Appel, San Rafael, Ca. "FATAL STOP" 1968 TRIPTYCH OF SCREENPRINTS, SIGNED. "Richard Lindners DEPICTIONS OF WOMEN HAD THE BITE OF BRECHT AND THE MACHINE LIKE SURFACE OF LEGER-Time Magazine May', 1978. Born in 1901 at Hamburg, Germany, Richard Lindner became a fine-art painter of hard-edge abstract figures, a fashion illustrator and art educator. His signature figural works reflect his perception of the un-fulfillment of pop culture and are shown in surreal settings with garish bright colors, flat forms and faces with severe expressions. Among them are streetwalkers, military personnel, mannequins and circus performers---all looking mechanical and unhappy. Richard Lindner spent his childhood in Nuremberg and studied there at the Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1924 to 1927 he lived in Munich where he studied from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. He moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1928 and then 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 became politically engaged, sought contact with French artists and earned his living as a commercial artist. Overall Size: 33 x 45 in. Sight Size: 31 1/2 x 43 in.