安德烈·布特兹（André Butzer）生于德国的斯图加特，生活在柏林的兰斯多夫。
他的绘画是半抽象的，绘画的特点是他那些卡通相似的角色和物体。布特兹对卡通一代很有兴趣，一方面他受到童真的影响，对卡通喜恶交加，另一方面因为一种人工的无生命感，他把卡通置与道德的边缘。
布特兹的作品被称为“幻想表现主义”，他受James Ensor, Willem DeKooning和Phillip Guston的影响很大。
布特兹从1994年开始绘画。1997年他是建立汉堡“Isotrop”学会的成员之一，这个学会是自发的教育性团体。
2001年布特兹建立了"Institut für SDI-Traumforschung"。他也是“Isotrops”会刊的共同编撰者。这本会刊记录了共同好绘画实践的经验，布特兹则在会刊中推演了自己的绘画体系。他加入过Albert Oehlen的“后非客观主义”（post-non-objectivism），这是一个抽象艺术“复兴”的观念。
在布特兹的图像中，他混合了细碎零散的和历史中重要的关联。他展示了自己发明的形象，而这些形象实际上也存在于历史中。布特兹在整个欧洲的画廊和美术馆中都参加了展览。
安德烈·布特兹作品
Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany and lives in Rangsdorf by Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects.[1] Butzer isinterested 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 beyondmorality.[2] Butzer’s work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism,[3] he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem DeKooning, and Phillip Guston.[4] In 1997, he helped tofound Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg.[5]
Butzer is an outstanding representative of contemporary German expressionism. He has been painting since 1994. In 1997 he was among those painters who established Academy“Isotrop” (Hamburg), a student self-educational community. In 2001 Butzer founded "Institut für SDI-Traumforschung". He is also a co-editor of the “Isotrops” journal.It isfrom the experience of collective painting practices where Andre Butzer deduces his painting system. He was engaged with post-non-objectivism of Albert Oehlen, a concept thatstands for ‘renewal’ of abstract art. In his illustrated visions Butzer blends both trivial and historically important references.
He shows his self-invented characters as synonyms of those who virtually inhabited this or that historical epoch. Andre Butzer has already managed to show the pieces of his ownin numerous galleries and museums all over Europe.The artist is expected to visit the opening event as well as Max Hetzler and Guido Baudach, well-known German gallerists
展览
08-09年个展
September - October 2008 Patrick Painter Inc. Santa Monica, USA
September – October 2008 Galerie Bernd Kugler Innsbruck, Austria
November 2008 Gio Marconi Milan, Italy
November 2008 Athens, Greece
February 2009 Patricia Low Gstaad, Switzerland
May 2009 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
June 2009 Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Summer/Autumn 2009 Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany Paintings 1999-2009
Autumn, 2009 Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc. Moscow, Russia
个展：
2007
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (and 2005, 2004, 2002)
2006
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (and 2005, 2003)
Gio Marconi, Milano
2005
Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich (and 2004, 2002)
Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna (and 2002)
Neverworld Technik (with Andreas Hofer), Kunstverein Ulm (cat.
2004
Das Ende vom Friedens-Siemens Menschentraum, Kunstverein Heilbronn (cat.)
2003
Todall!, Galerie Hamelehle und Ahrens, Cologne (cat.)
2001
Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Stuttgart (with Markus Selg)
2000
Der Realismus bereut nichts!, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1999
Ich bin Munch, Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna
群展
2008
Summer 2008 London, UK, Saatchi Gallery „Germania- new art from Germany"
September 2008 Patrick Painter Inc., Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, USA
„Pop-Auge und die ewigen Quatschkommoden – Deutsche und Amerikanische Kunst seit 1999“
September 2008 Galeria Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid, Spain
September - October, 2008 Oldenburg, Germany, Oldenburger Kunstverein
„Karotten und Schweinehals – Deutsche Kunst seit 1995“
September - October, 2008 Tokyo, Japan
through November 2008 Miami, USA, Rubell Family Collection „Eurocentric – Part 1“
"Karotten und Schweinehals: Deutsche Kunst seit 1995," Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany
Metro Pictures, New York
"Vertrautes Terrain: Contemporary Art in & about Germany," ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
"Bad Painting," Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
"Kommando Tilman Riemenschneider: Europa 2008," Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Germany (cat.)
2007
"Euro-Centric," Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Ortsmuseum Wolfhalden, Appenzellerland, Switzerland
Kommando Calvin Cohn New York, Salon 94, New York
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (cat.) (and 2006)
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (and 2005, 2004)
2006
Imagination Becomes Reality, Goetz Collection, Munich
2005
Schwarz, Brot, Gold, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Styles und Stile – Contemporary German Painting from the Scharpff Collection, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
La nouvelle peinture Allemande, Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (cat.)
2004
Aktuelle Malerei – Heisskalt – Sammlung Scharpff, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Made in Berlin, ArtForum, Berlin (cat.)
Heimweh, Haunch of Venison, London
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Hands up, Baby, hands up, Oldenburger Kunstverein
Im Helbo, Brotherslasher, Cologne (cat.)
Heißkalt – aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Kunsthalle Hamburg u.a. (cat.)
Vom Horror in der Kunst, Grazer Kunstverein
deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein (cat.)
2002
FRIEDE, FREIHEIT, FREUDE, Maschenmode, Berlin
Bitches of all genders they come and go, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne
Hossa, Central Cultural Andratx, Palma de Mallorca
Große Kunstausstellung Sommer 2002 im Pazifik, PAZIFIK, Berlin
Schwarzwaldhochstraße, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (cat.)
Offene Haare, Offene Pferde - Amerikanische Kunst 1933-45, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (cat.)
2001
The Oelwechsel, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Forever Infinite, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
Escape Tirana Biennale 1, Tirana (cat.)
Viva November, Staedtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (cat.)
aua extrema, Museum Kornelimünster, Aachen
Musterkarte - Modelos de Pintura en Alemania 2001 Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (cat.)
Sibirien Forellen Express, Maschenmode, Berlin
2000
Die Beute, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Berlin-Binnendifferenz, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Klara, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Akademie Isotrop, Kunstakademie, Bergen
1999
Akademie Isotrop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Akademie Isotrop, Galerie Hoffmann & Senn, Vienna
Polizeiterror und die Geteilten Zoepfe, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna
Richter, Bohlen, Koether, Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna
Scorpio Rising, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Akademie Isotrop - contents & documents, Cubitt Gallery, London
Akademie Isotrop - Revolution, Evolution, Exekutuion, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
1998
Circus Dinkelacker, Galerie Nomadenoase, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
Kunst, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
Reality Investment, Donaufest, Ulm
Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Akademie Isotrop - Verschiedene Gebiete, Contemporay Fine Arts, Berlin
1997
Akademie Isotrop, Kuenstlerhaus, Stuttgart
1996
Der Umbau, Kuenstlerhaus, Stuttgart
公共和私人收藏：
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Goetz Collection, Muni
