Werner Büttner

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Werner Büttner (born March 15, 1954 in Jena ) is a German painter.

life and work

Shortly before the Wall was built in 1961, Büttner moved with his parents from the GDR to Munich. Moved to Berlin in 1968, he studied law at the Free University of Berlin from 1973 to 1977 . After completing his studies, he worked as a social worker in the Tegel correctional facility . He was the co-founder of several humorous titled organizations such as the "Dum-Dum-Liga-Journal", the establishment of a seed bank for GDR refugees. In 1976 he founded the “League to Combat Contradictory Behavior” with Albert Oehlen . In the 1980s, together with the brothers Albert and Markus Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger , he was counted among the so-called “newcomers” or “ young wild ones ” in painting who turned away from conceptual art and propagated a “return to painting”.

In 1978 he and Albert Oehlen painted a mural for the “Welt” bookstore in Hamburg. In response, a complaint was made for the publication of pornographic images. As a result, the "League to Combat Contradictory Behavior" was founded. In 1979 Büttner took part in the group exhibition “Elend”, organized by Martin Kippenberger in Berlin. In 1980, together with Albert Oehlen and Georg Herold , he set up a seed bank for GDR refugees and in 1981 founded the “Church of Indifference” with Albert and Markus Oehlen. In the same year he had his first solo exhibition at the Max Hetzler gallery in Stuttgart .

His painting at that time was neo-expressionistic to neodadaistic, with sometimes humorous and sarcastic allusions to everyday life in titles and subjects. In the media, such as the magazine Twen , which presented and interviewed the “Neue Wilden” in May 1982, Büttner, like other Junge Wilde , drew attention to himself with social criticism , ironic-provocative statements, rebellious poses and verbal breaches of taboo : “Me I just want a warm place from where I can shoot people down for a good cause. "or" The elimination of wrong thoughts is just as much an act of artistic intoxication as the elimination of rubbish in museums and apartments "," The eye on the small and the big ones ”, so Büttner 1982. A manifesto of him together with Oehlen and Georg Herold is titled with skilled worker fuck.

Büttner worked as a writer for the music magazine Sounds and was represented in the group exhibition Zeitgeist in 1982 . In the late 80s and 90s, his works, like those of the other Neue Wilden, were also highly traded on the art market. In 1984 Werner Büttner was one of the 64 artists at the art exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf .

In the 1980s he founded Meter-Verlag together with Albert Oehlen . “The two had decided to fill a meter of shelf with books they had published themselves. They almost succeeded in doing that. "

Werner Büttner has been a lecturer since the 1980s and professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg since 1989 , where he teaches painting and is also internally involved in university politics. With him u. a. Daniel Richter . Together with the Lions Club and the Committee for Cultural Promotion of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , he annually selects young artists as a curator for the sales event "Art in the Stock Exchange" in Hamburg. Today he himself is primarily concerned with neodadaist collages, which were exhibited in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, among other places .

On the occasion of his 65th birthday in 2019, Büttner launched the Störer des Stumpsinns Foundation , which is intended to enable scholarship holders to work in Büttner's home and studio in Geesthacht near Hamburg.

Public collections

Büttner's works are represented in the following collections, among others:

Germany
France

bibliography

  • And the sea lay there like pasta made of gold and silver, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1987 ISBN 3-85415-048-2

Discography

Exhibitions

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Clewing: When books make you happy. In: Cicero . Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The who's who of the art scene as guests at the opening of Werner Büttner's new studio in Geesthacht. In: Lübecker Nachrichten Online. March 15, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Büttner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena