German artist Erich Buttner was born in 1889. From 1906-1911 Erich Büttner studied at the educational establishment of Decorative Arts Berlin under Emil Orlik and trained as a painter and graphic artist. Since 1908, he was a member of the Berlin Secession. He was celebrated as a major portraitists (eg he portrayed painter colleagues such as Corinth, Grosz, Zille and the former teacher Orlik). His oeuvre includes abstract-expressive tendencies. He passed away in 1936.

Erich Büttner was born in Germany in 1889. Buttner studied painting, graphics and book illustration from 1906 to 1911 with Emil Orlik at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. He became a member of the German Association of Artists and from 1908 a member of the Berlin Secession Artists' Association. In 1913 Erich Buttner had his first solo exhibition at the Gurlitt Gallery.