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

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

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

References

  1. ^ "kestnergesellschaft". kestner.org.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Andre Butzer at Alison Jaques Gallery". Undo.net. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
  3. ^ Groetz, Thomas (2003). Painting and Good Health. Exhibition Catalog. Berlin. p. 7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Andre Butzer". Alison Jaques Gallery.
  6. ^ "Saatchi Gallery". Saatchi-gallery.co.uk.
  7. ^ "Andre Butzer". Art4.ru. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
  8. ^ "Eventview ausstellungen". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2012.[view]=event&tx_cal_controller[type]=tx_cal_phpicalendar&tx_cal_controller[uid]=12&tx_cal_controller[lastview]=view-list|page_id-565&tx_cal_controller[year]=2011&tx_cal_controller[month]=05&tx_cal_controller[day]=27&cHash=9eff847c078b26f1186c516b900a3add
  9. ^ "André Butzer – Works".