Leo Götz

Leonard (Leo) Götz ( born March 15, 1883 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, † 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 Professor Martin Feuerstein, he has been active since 1914 in the yard. He was there manifested itself. Among other things, oil paintings, watercolors, red chalk drawings, farmer cabinets and also the design of entire sacred and secular indoor ensembles in his oeuvre. Special Influences he won from the Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and the classic Munich landscape painting school. He worked closely with his brother Edward also be painted idol in the pastures and sculptor Wilhelm Vierling ( crucifix above the choir of the parish church of St. Mary Hofer ) together.

One of his works from 1941/42, shows stonemasons as an idealized German workers. There was a mural in the administration building in Flossenbiirg and is now part of the exhibition of the memorial. Concentration camp prisoners are deliberately not shown.

Major works

• Interior decoration of the parish church of St. Mary in the yard.
• Staircase of the Giant Panda shoe factory in Naila.