Jurgen Bottcher - Artist Info

About Jurgen Bottcher

Name variants

Strawalde
  • Biography

    The German painter and director Jürgen Böttcher, also known as Strawalde, was born in 1931 in Frankenberg. He studied from 1949 until 1953 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden and worked afterwards as an independent artist. Among his students was A. R. Penck. After having studied cinematics at the Hochschule für Filmkunst Potsdam-Babelsberg, he worked from 1960 onward at the DEFA Studio for Documentaries in Berlin.

    His works are partly abstract, partly figurative and can be found in international museums such as the National Gallery in Berlin.

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