Andr\u00e9 Butzer (b. Stuttgart, 1973; lives in Berlin) rose to renown with pictures he describes as \u201cscience fiction expressionism\u201d and iconic characters like the \u201cPeace Siemense,\u201d the \u201cMen of Shame,\u201d or the \u201cWoman\u201d as well as seemingly abstract compositions. Artistic predecessors he admires and emulates include Walt Disney, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin, and Henry Ford. Butzer\u2019s utopian artistic vision is anchored in the fictional place \u201cNASAHEIM\u201d, a kind of pilgrimage destination in outer space. Yet his paintings should not be mistaken for illustrations of narrative structures; they articulate something that could not be said before. Similes of a sort, they embody the forever recurring extremes of history as emblems of human existence.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9 Butzer briefly studied at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, before enrolling at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK), from which he was expelled after two semesters in 1996. He went on to found the autonomous and anti-institutional Akademie Isotrop (1996\u20132000), where over twenty artists including Markus Selg, Jonathan Meese, and, in loose association, John Bock trained one another. In 2001, Butzer teamed up with Bj\u00f6rn Dahlem to establish the Institute for SDI Dream Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andr\u00e9 Butzer (b. Stuttgart, 1973; lives in Berlin) rose to renown with pictures he describes as \u201cscience fiction expressionism\u201d and iconic characters like the \u201cPeace Siemense,\u201d the \u201cMen of Shame,\u201d or the \u201cWoman\u201d as well as seemingly abstract compositions. Artistic predecessors he admires and emulates include Walt Disney, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin, and Henry Ford. Butzer\u2019s utopian artistic vision is anchored in the fictional place \u201cNASAHEIM\u201d, a kind of pilgrimage destination in outer space. Yet his paintings should not be mistaken for illustrations of narrative structures; they articulate something that could not be said before. Similes of a sort, they embody the forever recurring extremes of history as emblems of human existence.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9 Butzer briefly studied at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, before enrolling at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK), from which he was expelled after two semesters in 1996. He went on to found the autonomous and anti-institutional Akademie Isotrop (1996\u20132000), where over twenty artists including Markus Selg, Jonathan Meese, and, in loose association, John Bock trained one another. In 2001, Butzer teamed up with Bj\u00f6rn Dahlem to establish the Institute for SDI Dream Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22106,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2215,2213],"product_tag":[4219,4155],"class_list":{"0":"post-21492","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-new-arrivals","8":"product_cat-painting","9":"product_tag-andre-butzer-en","10":"product_tag-miettinen-collection-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n