1901
Richard Lindner is born in Hamburg, Germany.
1905
Moves to Nuremberg with his family where his mother opens a custom-fitted corset business.
1924-27
Moves to Munich.
1925-27
Studies at the Künstakademie, Munich.
1927-28
Moves to Berlin.
1928
Returns to Munich to work as the art director for a publishing house.
1929
Marries Elisabeth Schülein.
1933
Flees to Paris where he works as a commercial artist and graphic designer.
1939
Serves in the French army.
1941
Moves to New York where he works as an illustrator for Fortune, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue magazines.
1948
Becomes an American citizen.
Early 1950s
Begins painting seriously.
1952-67
Teaches at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
1954
His first solo exhibition is held at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York.
1965
Begins painting full-time and teaches at the Akademie für Bildende Künste, Hamburg.
1967
Teaches at Yale University, New Haven.
1969
Marries his second wife, Denise Kopelman.
1978
Dies in New York on April 16.