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Götz, Karl-Otto (b Aachen, 22 Feb 1914). German painter, photographer, film maker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and teacher. From 1932 to 1933 he attended the Webe- und Kunstgewerbeschule in Aachen. Inspired by Picasso, Gris, Klee and the Expressionists, Götz reduced the figures in his painting to minimal linear outlines from 1933, as a result of which he was prohibited from painting and exhibiting from 1935 to 1936. During his military service from 1936 to 1938 he experimented with spray painting, overpainted photograms (of his wife), photograms (produced by laying objects on photographic paper exposed to light) and abstract cine-films. In 1938 he settled in Wurzen, Saxony, and from 1938 to 1939 attended the Kunstakademie in Dresden where he began to concentrate on abstract works, using a mixture of organic and geometric elements. In 1940 he moved to Dresden, where his friends included Will Grohmann and Otto Dix. He served in the German army in Norway from 1941 to 1945. During this period he studied Surrealism, corresponded with Willi Baumeister and composed his Fakturenfibel (‘Introductory primer’; 1945; artist’s col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 143), which presents, in ink sketches, a systematic alphabet of forms compiled of individual elements and their compound variations; after World War II he produced accompanying woodcuts (1943–5; artist’s col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 143).
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