Albert Lindegger

Infobox Painting

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title=Weiblicher Akt am Strand
(Female Nude on Beach)
artist=Albert Lindegger
year=1952
type=Oil on canvas
height=64.5
width=81
height_inch=25.4
width_inch =31.9
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Albert Lindegger or Lindi (14 September 1904 – 14 October 1991) was a Swiss painter and illustrator, best known as a political satirist. [cite web|url=http://bernensia.ch/biographien/lindi1904.php|title=Lindi (Lindegger, Albert 1904-1991) |publisher=Bernensia.ch|language=German|accessdate=2008-06-05]

Born in Berne, he studied art in Paris, at the "Académie André Lhote".cite book|last=Amstutz|first=Walter|title=Who's Who in Graphic Art |publisher=Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis|date=1962|pages=p. 456] In 1934 he adopted the artist name "Lindi", and exhibited in the "Kunsthalle Bern".cite web|url=http://albertlindi.ch/li-biographie.html|title=Biographie und Albert Lindi – Sein Werk|publisher=albertlindi.ch|language=German|accessdate=2008-06-05] By the 1930s he had established himself as a caricaturist, and travelled widely through Europe, visiting Spain and Turkey, as well as Madagascar and countries in Northern Africa. Through the years of the Second World War, Lindegger continued to draw caricatures, often critical of the German Nazi regime, but also illustrated books such as Émile Zola's "Nana" and Guy de Maupassant's "Bel Ami" and "Une vie". [cite book|last=Zola|first=Émile|title=Nana|publisher=Büchergilde Gutenberg|location=Zürich|date=1942|language=German
cite book|last=Maupassant|first=Guy de|title=Bel Ami|publisher=Büchergilde Gutenberg|location=Zürich|date=1947|language=German
cite book|last=Maupassant|first=Guy de|title=Ein leben|publisher=Büchergilde Gutenberg|location=Zürich|date=1954|language=German]

After the war he continued to contribute illustrations to magazines, and worked for the publications "Die Weltwoche" in Basel and "National-Zeitung" and "Der Bund" in Berne. He was often employed to produce illustrations from international events such as the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. Lindegger exhibited at various galleries and exhibitions over the years, such as the "Kunstmuseum" in Lucerne, the "Landweer" Gallery in Amsterdam, and in 1927 at the prestigious Paris "Salon d'Automne". He was also responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police, and at the crematorium in Berne.

His drawings are characteristically black-and-white line-drawings, often with humorous, anthropomorphic motifs. Though best known for his illustrations, Lindegger also produced sculptures, [cite web|url=http://albertlindi.ch/li-skulpt.html|title=Skulpturen|publisher=albertlindi.ch|language=|accessdate=2008-06-05] and erotic drawings of high artistic value, frequently as illustrations to self-written books. In addition to this he was also a filmmaker, and had to his credit the movies "Flug in den Hoggar" (1948) and "Madagaskar" (1951).

Lindegger married Marianne Murkowsky in 1960. Together they had the sons Marc Albert in 1962, and Renè in 1965, who died in an accident in 1984. Albert Lindegger died at the hospital San Giovanni in Bellinzona in 1991.

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Further reading

*The graphic arts journal "Graphis" had articles on Lindegger in vols. 17 (1947) and 72 (1957).