André Butzer

André Butzer (born in 1973 in Rangsdorf, Berlin)Fact|date=November 2007, is a German artist.

Biography

Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany and lives in Rangsdorf by Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects. [cite web|url=http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1184064939&day=1184191200|title=Andre Butzer at Alison Jaques Gallery|publisher=Undo.net] 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. [cite book|first=Thomas|last=Groetz|title=Painting and Good Health|series=Exhibition Catalog|location=Berlin|date=2003|pages=7] Butzer’s work has been called "Science-Fiction-Expressionism", [cite web|url=http://www.artrabbit.com/events/event&event=2660|title=Andre Butzer|publisher=Alison Jaques Gallery] he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem DeKooning, and Phillip Guston. [cite web|url=http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/andre_butzer.htm|publisher=Saatchi-gallery.co.uk|title=Saatchi Gallery] In 1997, he helped to found [http://www.akademie-isotrop.de/ Akademie Isotrop] in Hamburg. [cite web|url=http://art4.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=2680&block_id=36|title=Andre Butzer|publisher=Art4.ru]

Selected Exhibitions

2007

* "Niveaualarm" (with Klaus Auderer, Bara, Katja Barth, Hanna-Mari Blencke, Lutz Braun, Ben Cottrell, Björn Dahlem, Matthias Dornfeld, Axel Geis, Patrycja German, Michael Hackel, Thomas Helbig, Gregor Hildebrandt, Andreas Hofer, Leiko Ikemura, 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 Zipp, 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, 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

External links

* Andre Butzer’s [http://www.friedens-siemense.com/ official site]
* http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/5125
* [http://www.maxhetzler.com Max Hetzler Gallery]
* [http://www.galerie-kugler.at Bernd Kugler Gallery]
* [http://www.patrickpainter.com Patrick Painter Gallery]
* [http://www.giomarconi.com Giò Marconi Gallery]
* [http://www.metropicturesgallery.com Metro Pictures Gallery]
* [http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~lotz/butzer/ Inerview] with Andre Butzer from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig
*Andre Butzer at [http://www.guidowbaudach.com/kuenstler/BUTZER_CV.HTML Galerie Guido W Baudach]
*Images, biography and texts about Andre Butzer from the [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/andre_butzer.htm Saatchi Gallery]
* [http://www.berlinerposterverlag.com Andre Butzer at Berliner Poster Verlag]

References