Leo Götz
Leonhard (Leo) Götz (born March 15, 1883 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ; † November 3, 1962 in Hof / Saale ) was a Bavarian artist.
Life
After studying painting at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Martin von Feuerstein , he was active in Hof from 1914. He was active there in a variety of ways. Among other things, there are oil paintings, watercolors, red chalk drawings, peasant cupboards and the design of entire sacred and secular interior ensembles in his oeuvre . He gained particular influences from Art Nouveau , symbolism and the classic Munich landscape painting school . He worked closely with his brother Eduard Götz, who was also painting, in Weiden and the sculptor Wilhelm Vierling (Christ Cross above the choir of the Hofer Stadtkirche St. Marien).
One of his works from 1941/42 shows stonemasons as idealized German workers. It was located as a mural in the administration building in the Flossenbürg concentration camp and is now part of the memorial exhibition. Concentration camp prisoners are not shown.
Major works
- Interior decoration of the town church St. Marien in Hof.
- Staircase of the panda shoe factory in Naila .
literature
- Florian Kuchler: Götz, Leonhard (Leo). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Col. 719-722.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Götz, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götz, Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Willows in the Upper Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1962 |
| Place of death | Hof , Saale |