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Abstract Art Pioneer Karl Otto Götz Dies, Aged 103
21August
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Abstract Art Pioneer Karl Otto Götz Dies, Aged 103

Berlin.- German painter Karl Otto Götz, deemed pioneer of abstract art of the postwar period, died at the age of 103, confirmed today the K.O. Götz and Rissa Foundation.

The artist, born on times of WWI, is known thanks to his works with black and white compositions of huge dimensions distributed by several of the most important museums in the world.

K.O. Götz got the help of his wife for painting after 100 years because that he was almost blind.

During WWII Nazis banned him to work because of his abstract style, and it was not until 1945 after the end of the war when he reached international recognition.

On his career he also was a professor at Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he had Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke as disciples, two of the greatest of German contemporary painting.

K.O. Götz die on Saturday and among his most outstanding works is the collection Jonction 3.10.90, II and III,which are exhibited in the Bundestag (German parliament).