André Butzer

André Butzer (born in 1973 in Stuttgart),^[1] is a German painter.

Biography

Butzer was born in Stuttgart, West Germany and lives in Rangsdorf near Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects.^[2] Butzer is interested in the comic genre, whose ambivalence comes on the one hand from a childlike inflation of effect and on the other hand from an artificial lifelessness, set beyond morality.^[3][4] Butzer's work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism,^[5] he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and Phillip Guston.^[6] In 1997, he helped to found Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg.^[7]

Butzer is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, with whom he has exhibited with since 2003, and Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles.

Selected exhibitions

2014

• "André Butzer / Christian Eisenberger", Künstlerhaus KM–, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

2011

• "andré butzer | der wahrscheinlich beste abstrakte maler der welt", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover^[8]
• "André Butzer", Carbon 12 Dubai^[9]

2007

• "Niveaualarm" kuratiert von Ulrich Wulff, Kunstraum Innsbruck
• "Imagination Becomes Reality. Eine Ausstellung zum erweiterten Malereibegriff. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz", ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
• "Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
• Alison Jacques Gallery, London
• Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
• Friedens-Siemense (Teil 2), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
• Hitz ond Brand, Ortsmuseum Wolfhalden, Appenzellerland / Swiss Kommando Calvin
• Cohn, New York, salon 94, New York

2006

• "Imagination Become Reality: Ein mehrteiliger Ausstellungszyklus zum Bildverständnis aktueller Kunst. Part IV: Borrowed Images", Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
• "Amerikanische Technik im Jahr 2017", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
• Galerie Bernd Kugler, Austria
• "Griessbrei für alle!", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2005

• "La nouvelle peinture Allemande", Carré d’art-Musée d’art contemporain De Nîmes, Nîmes

2004

• "Heimweh", Haunch of Venison, London
• "Galerie Bernd Kugler", Innsbruck

2003

• "Todall!", Galerie Hamelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

2002

• "Friedens-Siemense (Part 1)", Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna
• "Wanderung nach Annaheim", Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2001

• "Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens", Stuttgart (with Markus Selg)

2000

• "Akademie Isotrop", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
• "Der Realismus bereut nichts!", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

1999

• "Ich bin Munch", Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna

Collections

• Scharpff Collection
• Taschen Collection
• Goetz Collection
• Rubell Collection
• Colección Lázaro

See also

• List of German painters

External links

• Andre Butzer's official site
• andrebutzer.com (website about the artist and his work)
• artfacts.net
• Galerie Guido W. Baudach
• Carbon 12 Dubai
• Galerie Max Hetzler
• Xippas Gallery
• Bernd Kugler Gallery
• Patrick Painter Gallery
• Giò Marconi Gallery
• Metro Pictures Gallery
• Interview with Andre Butzer from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig
• Images, biography and texts about Andre Butzer from the Saatchi Gallery
• Andre Butzer at Berliner Poster Verlag