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"tombstone": "Louis II, 1962. Richard Lindner (American, 1901\u20131978). Oil on canvas; unframed: 127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965.450. \u00a9 Artists Right Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Fifty Years of Modern Art",
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"description": "Richard Lindner. Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany (organizer) (October 11-November 24, 1968); Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, Hannover, Germany (December 6, 1968-January 19, 1969); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany (January 24-March 9, 1969); Berkeley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archive, CA, Berkeley, CA (June 17-July 27, 1969).",
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"title": "Richard Lindner Exposition",
"description": "Richard Lindner Exposition. Mus\u00e9e National d'art Moderne, Paris, France (January 5-March 3, 1974); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (March 15-May 12, 1974); Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany (June 13-July 28, 1974); Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, CH-8024 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland (August 7-September 29, 1974); Kunsthalle N\u00fcrnberg, 90402 N\u00fcrnberg, Germany (December 14, 1974-February 2, 1975).",
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"title": "Richard Lindner",
"description": "Richard Lindner. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (May 7-July 10, 1977).",
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"title": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual",
"description": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).",
"opening_date": "1983-11-22T05:00:00"
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"title": "Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977",
"description": "Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (October 17, 1996-January 12, 1997).",
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"description": "(Arne K. Ekstrom, New York).",
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"did_you_know": "Lindner appears in the second row of the Beatles\u2019 St. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) album cover.",
"description": "Richard Lindner\u2019s often colorful figures in hard-edge style build a bridge between the classic modern European art and aspects of American popular culture. With the historical figure of Louis II, Lindner refers to a memory of his childhood in Germany that is the subject in several of his later paintings. Ludwig II of Bavaria (sometimes rendered as Louis II in English) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King (or M\u00e4rchenk\u00f6nig in German) and is considered to have been mentally ill, though the medical diagnosis remains controversial. Adding to the controversy are his eccentric character and the mysterious circumstances under which he died. In Lindner\u2019s painting Ludwig II appears as an enigmatic, yet powerful figure whose legacy is strongly connected with the history of art.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Zilczer, Judith, and Peter Selz. Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1996.",
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