André 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.
Sources of photographs: Instagram, Galerija E. Florez, Atelierlog, Curator
1973
Born in Stuttgart.
1999
First solo exhibition Ich bin Munch in Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna.
2000
Finished his studies at Hamburg Akademie Isotrop.
2001
Establisdhed Institut für SDI-Traumforschung (Inštitut za SDI Dream Research) in Berlin with Björn Dahlem.
Became co-editor of the art magazine "Isotrops".
