Background
André Butzer was born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
1997
André Butzer in Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Photo by Heinz Peter Knes.
André Butzer’s painting ‘Nicht Fürchten 2 (Don't Be Scared 2)’ purchased at Sotheby's in New York City for $175,000.
André Butzer with one of his painting on the background.
André Butzer
André Butzer with Bernd Kugler.
André Butzer was born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
André Butzer has worked with painting and its history since the middle of the 1990s. Inspired by German Neo-expressionist painters and animated cartoons, his early works of bright colors alluded political state, divertissement field, and science fiction technology through overemphasized reality full of grotesque figures and forms.
In 1997, Butzer participated in the foundation of Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg, and then has co-edited its magazine ‘Isotrops’. Four years later, the artist also co-founded, along with Björn Dahlem, the Institut für SDI-Traumforschung.
With the course of time, Butzer abandoned for a while the colorful palette and adopted instead white, black, and its nuances what can be seen on his grey abstract paintings first appeared by 2010. The essential elements of the canvases, so-called ‘N-Bild.’ series, are dots, spirals, horizontal and vertical rectangles, and other geometrical shapes.
Butzer has exhibited throughout Germany, including the shows at Galerie Christine Mayer in Munich, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. His artworks have also been featured in various art spaces internationally, like Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, France.
Nowadays, André Butzer lives and works in Rangsdorf municipality not far from Berlin.
Some of the essential elements of André Butzer’s art which he calls himself ‘science-fiction-expressionism’ are repetition and variations.
Quotations: "Paintings do not come into being one to one, but one to twenty; they cannot be fixed in a single outline, color and function, but are constantly produced afresh by the observation and movement of these elements."
André Butzer works sometimes under such pen names as N-Hölderlin, Henry Butzer, and Calvin Cohn.