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Karl Otto Göetz started, 17 years old, at the Kunstgewerbe Schule
in 1931. He followed lectures for two years, and started in the same period
to paint. Until 1935 his paintings was characterized by surrealism, but
from 1936 the abstract expression became stronger.
After the war, Göetz became member of Rosenkreiz, a group of artists
connected to Galerie Rosen in Berlin, and at a exhibition in Hannover
in 1946 he met the scotchman William Gear. Two years later William Gear
joined Cobra and in 1949 he introduced Göetz to the spontanious abstract
group. The same year Göetz exhibited both in Manheim together with
among others Atlan, and later at the Cobra exhibition at Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam. At Stedelijk he introduced five oyher germans.
Göetz edited a german number of the magazine Cobra
(number 5), and from 1948 until 1953 he published the magazine META about
modern art (10 issues) of which number 6 was dedicated Nederlandse Experimentele
Group.
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