Edition Linn

Edition Linn has been publishing prints since 2006, bringing together contemporary artists and knowledgeable printmakers to create prints in small editions. Also dealing in art on paper; particularly original prints and drawings. Additionally, books have been published, among them an ongoing series of André Butzer’s collected texts and the first catalogue of Berlin based painter Ulrich Wulff’s paintings.

André Butzer, André Butzer Press Releases, Letters, Conversations, Texts, Poems Volume 3: 1999–2021, Edition Linn, 2021 © André Butzer

All good things come in threes and so do André Butzer’s collected writings. The third volume is elegantly sharp and poignant. Editor Alexander Linn continues to explore the unique fictitious universe, Butzer calls »NASAHEIM«. Boldly touching on the latter’s own work and biography, art history as well as music in numerous letters, in-depth conversations and poems. Guided by the simple question: What is real?, Butzer searches for »the actual location of painting, the space in-between. It’s a very esoteric but easy to understand conception of truth.«

Editor: Alexander Linn / Edition Linn

Text: André Butzer

Conversations: Madeline Bergstrom, Jayme Burtis, Sarah Freeman, Peter Ibsen, Christian Malycha, John Newsom, Richard Pallardy among others

Design: Studio Martin Steiner

Language: German/English/French

Details: Paperback, 19.5 x 14.5 cm, 144 pages, numerous ills.

Publication date: 11/2021

ISBN: 978-3-903572-58-4

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Alexander Linn, André Butzer Unvollständiges Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik Band I: 2001–2022, Edition Linn, 2022 © Alexander Linn

Since 2003, the accomplished editor Alexander Linn has been following the graphic work of André Butzer. With such intimate knowledge, great care and passion most of all, he now presents the first volume of the catalog raisonné of prints.
Graphics are a fully valid part of Butzer’s œuvre from the very beginning and at all times, the prints catch up with the development of his painting in complete independence. Everything is there and decisively formulated. His iconic figures, colors and forms, the basic motifs and themes are present with a clarity only to be achieved in graphic art: From the simplest linocuts to elaborate series in a variety of graphic techniques to the grace and gorgeous colors of recent years.
High time for this book, which already is an invaluable reference and an impressive testament to a graphic œuvre with which André Butzer modestly but with the highest mastery inscribes himself in the long tradition of peintres graveurs.

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André Butzer, Sieben Zeichnungen, Edition Linn, 2017 © André Butzer

Released in only 400 copies, this artist’s book depicts seven colorful drawings made in 2017, shown in their original size.

Editor: Alexander Linn

Design: Studio Martin Steiner

Details: Staple binding, 25 x 30 cm, 16 pages, illustrations in color.

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Silkscreen in an edition of 5, 1 AP, 1 PP. 32 x 24 in. Numbered, signed and dated.

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Lithograph from a series of three in an edition 12, 4 AP, 2 PP. 19,7x26 in. Numbered, signed and dated.

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