Götz, was a German artist, filmmaker, draughtsman, printmaker, writer and professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

[2] He was one of the oldest living and active artists older than 100 years of age[3] and is best remembered for his explosive and complex abstract forms.

[2] His works and teachings influenced future artists such as Sigmar Polke, Nam June Paik and Gerhard Richter.

Gӧtz was specifically influenced by artists such as Max Ernst, Juan Gris, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Gӧtz returned from Norway after the end of the war and married artist Anneliese Brauckmeyer (née Hager).

He produced woodcuts and watercolours that featured fantastical plant forms and creatures, among them a series of monotype prints of bird-humans.

[12] During the late 1940s he continued to producing abstract-figurative monotypes and surrealistic experimental photo works, but his painting became predominantly abstract.

[citation needed] In 1952, Gӧtz co-founded the Frankfurt QUADRIGA along with Otto Gries, Heinz Kreutz, and Bernard Schultze.

[15] During the group's brief existence, before the divergence of its loosely associated members' artistic development led to its dissolution in 1954, Quadriga played an important pioneer role in introducing Art informel to Germany [16] From then on, he became a leading figure in the German Art Informal and was showcased in major shows such as the Venice Biennale of 1958 and Documenta II exhibition in Kassel in 1959.

In a technique Götz has continued to use throughout his later painting career, the image is developed through a lengthy, intense process, often involving a large number of preliminary sketches and gouaches.

Once the preparation is complete, the artist applies dark paint onto a light background with a paintbrush, working in a fast and focused way.

Several of his low relief sculptures reflect the same fluid and dynamic movement that can be found in his unique painting technique.

Götz's contemporary work (2010) features deeply colored abstract collages and hand-painted pieces based on a computer-generated random pixelation process.