André Butzer (born in 1973 in Stuttgart),[1] is a German painter.
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.
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
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
- Scharpff Collection
- Taschen Collection
- Goetz Collection
- Rubell Collection
- Colección Lázaro
Groetz, Thomas (2003). Painting and Good Health. Exhibition Catalog. Berlin. p. 7.{{cite book}}
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Holzwarth, Hans W. (2009). 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z (Taschen's 25th anniversary special ed.). Köln: Taschen. p. 88. ISBN 978-3-8365-1490-3.
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