Loch Gallery invites you to enjoy this selection of paintings and prints by Saskatchewan artist, Ernie Lindner in our Calgary gallery.
Ernest Lindner was born in 1897 in Vienna, Austria. Upon immigrating to Canada in 1926, Lindner attended night classes at the University of Saskatchewan under Augustus Kenderdine. It was through the influence of Lindner and Kenderdine that the University of Saskatchewan began to run its annual Emma Lake Artist's Workshops.
The subject that concerned Lindner most was the cycle of life, and his preferred subjects were the plant life around his summer home at Emma Lake. Lindner's later images are often composites of human and natural forms, overlapping and blending into each other.
Nearing the end of his distinguished career, Lindner was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977 and made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979. His works are found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Glenbow Museum, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
