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André Butzer
André Butzer (born 7 June 1973 in Stuttgart) is a German artist.
Butzer studied for a short time at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, and was a member of the "Akademie Isotrop" group in Hamburg from 1996 to 2000.
Butzer became famous for his paintings, which he himself described as "Science Fiction Expressionism". His paintings can be sorted into different genres, such as the "Friedens-Siemense" (Peace Siemenses), "Schande-Menschen" (Men of Shane), the "Frau" (Woman) or the "Wanderer", completely monochrome or extreme, Abstract paintings that resemble colorful visions of lost technological utopias. According to Guillermo Solana, Butzer’s characters seem "like Disney figures painted by Munch."
Butzer names Walt Disney, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry Ford as his role models. He also appeared in public under the names N-Hölderlin, Henry Butzer, and Calvin Cohn. Butzer’s utopian, artistic design is located in the fictional place "Nasaheim" ("N"), a kind of pilgrimage site in space, "where the inhabitants contemplate the decommissioned machines of destruction and all who arrive there are made innocent".
However, his paintings do not appear to be translations of narrative structures; rather, they bring forth content, i.e., they express something that could not be said before. The artist often produces in series and instrumentalizes the means of repetition as an "amoral method of representation". Some of the paintings can be classified as history paintings, also through their depiction of history as a drama of individual figures.
According to Hannah Eckstein, Butzer’s paintings show a world that is "once again out of joint. His paintings and watercolors are as touching as they are disturbing. They call for caution and vigilance. All too easily, as history tells, man tends to repeat his transgressions and, all of a sudden, appears with a monstrously transformed face, as if in a Kafkaesque nightmare." Usually, he either applies paint very thickly, painting in several layers, or achieving lighter, cartoon-like results by using alla prima painting.
"Butzer’s fascinating fusion of early European Expressionism with ready-made American pop culture, the conceptual recurrence and apparent seriality of his figures, as well as his insistence on the bare human dignity, are a testament to his courageous and continuous enquiry into societal contradictions and social non-conformity."
Butzer lives in Berlin-Wannsee.
André Butzer
André Butzer (born 7 June 1973 in Stuttgart) is a German artist.
Butzer studied for a short time at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, and was a member of the "Akademie Isotrop" group in Hamburg from 1996 to 2000.
Butzer became famous for his paintings, which he himself described as "Science Fiction Expressionism". His paintings can be sorted into different genres, such as the "Friedens-Siemense" (Peace Siemenses), "Schande-Menschen" (Men of Shane), the "Frau" (Woman) or the "Wanderer", completely monochrome or extreme, Abstract paintings that resemble colorful visions of lost technological utopias. According to Guillermo Solana, Butzer’s characters seem "like Disney figures painted by Munch."
Butzer names Walt Disney, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry Ford as his role models. He also appeared in public under the names N-Hölderlin, Henry Butzer, and Calvin Cohn. Butzer’s utopian, artistic design is located in the fictional place "Nasaheim" ("N"), a kind of pilgrimage site in space, "where the inhabitants contemplate the decommissioned machines of destruction and all who arrive there are made innocent".
However, his paintings do not appear to be translations of narrative structures; rather, they bring forth content, i.e., they express something that could not be said before. The artist often produces in series and instrumentalizes the means of repetition as an "amoral method of representation". Some of the paintings can be classified as history paintings, also through their depiction of history as a drama of individual figures.
According to Hannah Eckstein, Butzer’s paintings show a world that is "once again out of joint. His paintings and watercolors are as touching as they are disturbing. They call for caution and vigilance. All too easily, as history tells, man tends to repeat his transgressions and, all of a sudden, appears with a monstrously transformed face, as if in a Kafkaesque nightmare." Usually, he either applies paint very thickly, painting in several layers, or achieving lighter, cartoon-like results by using alla prima painting.
"Butzer’s fascinating fusion of early European Expressionism with ready-made American pop culture, the conceptual recurrence and apparent seriality of his figures, as well as his insistence on the bare human dignity, are a testament to his courageous and continuous enquiry into societal contradictions and social non-conformity."
Butzer lives in Berlin-Wannsee.