Galería Ehrhardt Flórez

Artists

André Butzer

André Butzer, Untittled (2022), acrylic on canvas, 200 x 138,5 cm.

André Butzer, Untittled (2022), acrylic on canvas, 197,5 x 205,5 cm

André Butzer, Untitled, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 125 x 60 cm

André Butzer, Untitled, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 255 x 205 cm

André Butzer, Untitled (2020), oil and acrylic on canvas, 221 x 315 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2020), acrylic on canvas, 104 × 122 cm

André Butzer, Untitled (2017), acrylic on canvas, 300 x 200 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2017), acrylic on canvas, 250 x 200 cm

André Butzer, Untitled (2012), gouache on canvas, 100 x 70 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2009), oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2009), graphite and watercolor on paper, 170 x 203,5 cm.

André Butzer, Grillen und Grashüpfer (2009), oil on canvas, 140 x 170 cm.

André Butzer, Grillen und Grashüpfer (2009), oil on canvas, 230 x 190 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2008), oil on canvas, 200 x 260 cm.

André Butzer, Untitled (2008), oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm.

Biography

André Butzer (Stuttgart in 1973) lives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany.

He counts among the most striving German contemporary artists.
André Butzer paints brightly colored grids, intensely black cosmic landscapes and monumental wide-eyed, white-gloved innocent figures. While explicitly an expressionist painter, the breadth of Butzer’s body of work reveals a tremendous amount of evolution in practically all aspects of his craft: style, medium, composition and subject matter.

Butzer’s act of painting is inextricably linked to the experience (life, death, society and mass entertainment), so much so that one becomes a self-reflection of the other in a seemingly endless cyclical paradigm. His works speak not only to his dream-like Nasaheim (a combination of NASA & Anaheim) but also to the politics and history that created these fantasies – what he calls ‘Science Fiction Expressionism.’

Every new iteration of style or subject is influenced by what came before it, the past always brings us to the present and future of painting.
With influences as varied as Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, or Walt Disney; Butzer has developed a unique fictional universe.

Since 1996, his paintings have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in institutions as: Muse Novecento, hone Hola Carlota Florence; Muse Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid; Kunstverein Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen, Alemania; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo IKOB en Eupen, Bélgica; Kestnergesellschaft en Hannover, Alemania; Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Alemania; Kunstverein Reutlingen, Alemania; Museo de la Luz, Hokuto, Japón; Växjö Konsthall en Växjö, Suecia; y useo Nacional Museo YUZ, Shanghai, China.

His works are part of collections, such as: the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, the Taschen Collection, Cologne; the Art Institute of Chicago; Carréd’Art. Nimes; Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Hall Art Foundation, Reading; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums, Berlin, Germany; Nationalgalerie / Hamburger Bahnhof -Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; LACMA, Los Angeles; MOCA, Los Angeles; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen; Rubell Museum, Miami; YUZ Museum, Shanghai.