Gottfried Goebel studied at the Academy of Art with Rudolf Jettmar. In 1930 he participated in exhibitions of the Viennese artists association, the Hagenbund. In 1934 he met the artist Greta Freist, with whom he soon shared his life and atelier. Their common atelier soon became a literary meeting point for famous writers like Elias Cannetti, Otto Basil, Hermann Broch, Albert Paris Gütersloh and Heimito von Doderer.
In 1936 Goebel and Freist moved to Paris and already in 1937 Goebel participated in the Parisian Salon d´Automne. At the beginnning of WWII, Goebel was put into an internation camp by the French military. In 1948/49 he started to paint his first abstract works (series of Fond Blanc), and in 1952 he started painting geometrical art (Losanges) and from 1954 onwards he worked in a tachist style. In 1950 Goebel and Freist founded the French section of the Intenational Art Club in Paris. From 1960 onwards Goebel experimented with mixed media, he worked on his series "Peintures en relief" (1957) and Tubes (1960).
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