André Butzer
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Biography
Butzer was born in StuttgartStuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and lives in Rangsdorf near Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects. 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. Butzer’s work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism, he is influenced by James Ensor
James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Flemish-Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life...
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, and Phillip Guston. In 1997, he helped to found Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
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2007
- "Niveaualarm" (with Klaus Auderer, BaraBâraBâra is a commune in Neamţ County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bâra, Negreşti and Rediu.-References:...
, Katja Barth, Hanna-Mari Blencke, Lutz Braun, Ben Cottrell, Bjorn DahlemBjorn DahlemBjorn Dahlem is an artist based in Berlin.Dahlem was born in Munich. He makes sculptures based on space and astrophysics out of ordinary household materials.-Selected exhibitions:2000...
, Matthias Dornfeld, Axel Geis, Patrycja German, Michael Hackel, Thomas HelbigThomas HelbigThomas Helbig is an artist based in Berlin.Helbig attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Goldsmiths, University of London, from 1989-1996....
, Gregor Hildebrandt, Andreas HoferAndreas HoferAndreas Hofer was a Tirolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces....
, Leiko IkemuraLeiko Ikemurais a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
, Franka Kassner, Erwin Kneihsl, Maja Körner, Anna Kolodziejska, Gabriel Kondratiuk, Kitty Kraus, Alicja Kwade, Katrin Plavcak, Emanuel Seitz, Markus Selg, Astrid Sourkova, Lorenz Straßl, Frank Lucy Tonke, Remco Torenbosch, Joep van Liefland, Aribert von Ostrowski, Iskender Yediler, Thomas ZippThomas ZippThomas Zipp is an artist based in Berlin.Zipp studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Slade School, London from 1992-1998....
, etc.) kuratiert von Ulrich Wulff, Kunstraum Innsbruck - "Imagination Becomes Reality. Eine Ausstellung zum erweiterten Malereibegriff. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz", ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, KarlsruheKarlsruheThe City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... - "Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin", Galerie Max Hetzler, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
(cat.) - Alison Jacques Gallery, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
- Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- Friedens-Siemense (Teil 2), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
- Hitz ond Brand, Ortsmuseum Wolfhalden, Appenzellerland / Swiss Kommando Calvin
- Cohn, New York, salon 94, New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
2006
- "Imagination Become Reality: Ein mehrteiliger Ausstellungszyklus zum Bildverständnis aktueller Kunst. Part IV: Borrowed Images", Sammlung Goetz, MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... - "Amerikanische Technik im Jahr 2017", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
- Galerie Bernd Kugler, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
- "Griessbrei für alle!", Galerie Max Hetzler, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2005
- "La nouvelle peinture Allemande", Carré d’art-Musée d’art contemporain De Nîmes, NîmesNîmesNîmes is the capital of the Gard department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France. Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and is a popular tourist destination.-History:...
2002
- "Friedens-Siemense (Part 1)", Galerie Gabriele Senn, ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
- "Wanderung nach Annaheim", Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2000
- "Akademie Isotrop", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
- "Der Realismus bereut nichts!", Contemporary Fine Arts, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
External links
- Andre Butzer’s official site
- andrebutzer.com (website about the artist and his work)
- artfacts.net
- Galerie Guido W. Baudach
- Max Hetzler Gallery
- Xippas Gallery
- Bernd Kugler Gallery
- Patrick Painter Gallery
- Giò Marconi Gallery
- Metro Pictures Gallery
- Inerview with Andre Butzer from the Academy of Visual Arts in LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
- Images, biography and texts about Andre Butzer from the Saatchi Gallery
- Andre Butzer at Berliner Poster Verlag