André Butzer (born in 1973 in Stuttgart), 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. 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. Butzer’s work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism, he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and Phillip Guston. In 1997, he helped to found Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg. 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

2011

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

Collections