His personal collection includes work from Richard Prince, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and Urs Fischer.
He graduated from the Lycée Français de New York with a French Baccalaureate, magna cum laude from Amherst College in Spanish and comparative literature, and Yale Law School.
[citation needed] In 2012, he founded the iconoclastic New York-based art gallery Venus Over Manhattan,[2] which staged exhibitions of artists and estates that it represents including Richard Mayhew,[3] Peter Saul, Robert Colescott,[4] Jim Nutt,[5] Peter Saul, Robert Colescott, Richard Mayhew, Keiichi Tanaami, Joseph Elmer Yoakum, Maryan, H.C. Westermann, Jack Goldstein, Joan Brown, Roger Brown, John Dogg, Susumu Kamijo, Ana Benaroya, Anastasia Bay, Sophie Larrimore, Sally Saul, Shinichi Sawada, Katherine Bernhardt,[6] Alexander Calder,[7] Maurizio Cattelan,[8] Mike Kelley,[9] John McCracken, David Medalla, Cady Noland,[10] Raymond Pettibon,[11] Andy Warhol,[12] Franz West, William N. Copley, Walter Dahn, Roy De Forest, the Calder Foundation and the estate of William N. Copley.
Lindemann included works by artists which the collector was well-known to publicly support early in his collecting career, namely Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Urs Fischer, Rudolf Stingel, and Alexander Calder.
Lindemann is the head of the steering committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller wing, which includes works from sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the ancient Americas.