Ernest Lindner moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1926, where became a self-taught commercial artist.
34 Facts About Ernest Lindner
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Ernest Lindner soon was recognized locally and then nationally and was active in several art organizations.
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Ernest Lindner is known for his meticulous watercolors of natural woodlands depicting the cycle of decay and regeneration.
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Ernest Lindner was the thirteenth child of a German family.
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Ernest Lindner was wounded, but recovered and was back in service before the end of the war.
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Ernest Lindner helped in the family firm and engaged in a mineral water and sugar confectionery company with his brother Paul that failed.
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Ernest Lindner's siblings had to buy the cameras back and return them to the camera shop.
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Ernest Lindner boarded the ship "Melitta" from Antwerp to Canada, where he arrived with only $5 in his pocket.
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In 1926 Ernest Lindner immigrated to Canada and settled in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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Ernest Lindner became a freelance commercial artist and illustrator, largely self-taught.
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Ernest Lindner had become recognized as an artist in Saskatchewan by 1931, and by 1933 was starting to exhibit in eastern Canada.
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Ernest Lindner began to teach at the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate in 1931, first giving a night course and then became a full-time instructor.
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Ernest Lindner headed the Art Department at the Collegiate from 1936 until 1962.
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Ernest Lindner started a weekly discussion group called "Saturday Nights" that met in the private homes of local artists, often in his own home.
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Ernest Lindner was a member of the Prospectors, the first society of professional artists in the province.
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Ernest Lindner was one of the first members of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
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In 1959 Ernest Lindner returned to Vienna and attended the Akademie der Angewandten Kunst, where he took a master's course in etching and stone lithography.
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In 1962 Ernest Lindner left the Technical Collegiate and devoted himself to art for the remainder of his life.
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Ernest Lindner died in Saskatoon on 4 November 1988, aged 91.
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The Ernest Lindner Park is the Erindale suburb of Saskatoon in named in his honor.
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Ernest Lindner is known for his many watercolors inspired by the natural beauty of the wooded country around his summer home at Emma Lake.
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Ernest Lindner made etchings, lithographs, linocuts and wood block prints.
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Ernest Lindner has been called a Late Modernist and a Magic Realist.
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Ernest Lindner depicted the forest floor from close quarters, with highly textured patterns of surface detail from the fallen branches, tree stumps, moss and lichen.
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Ernest Lindner's work reveals a fascination with the natural cycle of decay and regeneration.
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Ernest Lindner's art excels by the truth of its color as well as of its drawing and design.
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Ernest Lindner's work was widely exhibited in Canada and was shown at the Canada House Gallery in London, England, and the Canadian Cultural centers in Paris and Brussels.
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Ernest Lindner's work is held in many important public or private collections.
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Ernest Lindner was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977.
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Ernest Lindner visited Emma Lake in the summer of 1935 and stayed at Murray Point, the site of the University art school camp and later the location of the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops.
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Ernest Lindner built a studio and summer cottage on the northeast shore of the island on what is called Ernest Lindner Point.
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Ernest Lindner often sat there to paint views of the landscape.
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Ernest Lindner sold the property to the University of Saskatchewan in 1961.
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Ernest Lindner was not interested in his two grandsons Michael and Andreas and declined their wish to visit him in Saskatoon in the 1970s.