From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under surrealist painter Mac Zimmermann. In 1968, he studied etching at Johnny Friedlaender"s workshop in Paris, France. From 1971 to 1974, he studied lithography in Salzburg, Austria.
After traveling throughout the United States, he chose to make the San Francisco Bay Area his home.
He is considered one of the key innovators of Metal Painting. Born and raised in Eisenach, East Germany, he moved to Munich, West Germany as a teenager. He returned to Munich in 1974.
During the early 1970s, he first experimented with using metal as a canvas by utilizing used etching plates for his paintings.
Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man exhibition in 1978. Andreas Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man show with Galerie Ernst Hilger at WASH-ART in Washington, District of Columbia in 1978.
Starting in 1981, National Aeronautics and Space Administration commissioned Nottebohm to create major works, including official paintings to commemorate the first launch of the space shuttle Columbia in 1981. His work has been featured in museums and galleries around the world including the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum in California, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
He has had over one hundred one-man shows in Europe and the United States.
"These raw yet refined paintings on aluminum lend themselves to rich multi-layered metaphors capable of continual regeneration. Nottebohm will be seen as a pioneer in a field that has just begun to be mined." (AskARTcom) "Nottebohm would have to be "hands down" the King of metal art There are many artists using metal today, but Andreas" art has more than set the standard.
(Sacramento Press) Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Art Gallery Smithsonian Institution Stephen West. Hawking: Portfolio A Brief History of My Time Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro City of Salzburg Satellite Business Systems Bell Atlantic Geico Hughes Aircraft Kreissparkasse Schweinfurt German Bundestag (Congress), Bonn German Embassy, Canberra, Australia Collection of the Philadelphia Free Public Library Iomega, Utah Adonal Foyle, Oakland, California Karl Kreuzer, Germany iSearch Media, Incorporated., San Francisco, California Nottebohm is currently completing a ten-year project with Pete Sears of Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna, and Moonalice, which combines twelve pure metal artworks with twelve "out-on-the-edge" pieces of experimental music
Nottebohm"s first museum retrospective opened at the University of Arizona Art Museum, on May 28, 2011 and ran through September 2011.
