Peter Goetz

1917 - 2007  (90 years)

• Name	Peter Goetz
  Born	1917	Slavgorod, , Altayskiy Kray, Russia
  Gender	Male
  Military	WW2 - served at an Alternative Service work camp in British Columbia.
  Occupation	artist
  		Kitchener City Hall
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-196846
  Died	28 Aug 2007
  Person ID	I196846	Generations
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Henry Goetz,   b. CA 1880,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Justia,   b. CA 1880,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F55360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helena Warkentin
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F55359	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Peter Goetz was 71-years-old when he said, "Painting is my life. It's the most satisfying, happy experience there is." Like a child bursting forth to greet a summer morning, Goetz explained that he still anxiously awaited the start of every day so that he could paint. Goetz had long since distinguished himself internationally as a watercolourist. His paintings were exhibited at La Scala Gallery in Florence, Italy; the Tokyo National Gallery; and the Rotunda Gallery in London, England. However, it was the sheer pleasure of playing with colour that brought him back to his passion every day. It was 1966 when Goetz, a married man with two children, walked into the offices of B.F. Goodrich and announced that he was quitting his job. He decided to leave his accounting position because it was taking too much away from his painting. Goetz was born in Slavgorod, Russia in 1917 and his Mennonite family moved to the Kitchener-Waterloo area when he was eleven years old. His father, a labourer who helped construct the Westmount Golf and Country Club, became the greenskeeper while Goetz attended high school at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute. ...... (2018). Wpl.ca. Retrieved 30 March 2018, from https://www.wpl.ca/sites/default/files/waterloo_150/goetz_peter.pdf

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1917 - Slavgorod, , Altayskiy Kray, Russia  = Link to Google Earth