Gunter Ullrich – brief biography at a glance
1925 | Born on April 7, 1925 in Würzburg |
1942 | High school graduation in Würzburg at the German junior high school |
1940er | Drawing lessons in Würzburg with Adalbert Reichel and Heiner Dikreiter |
1942 | Study of art history in Würzburg, for example at Kurt Gerstenberg |
1942 | Military service in Erlangen and Nuremberg |
1943 | Injury in combat with the armored forces in Russia and Lithuania |
1945 | Witness of the destroyed Würzburg shortly after the air raid on 16 March 1945 |
1945/46 | Prisoner of war at Marseille and in Alsace |
1946-48 | Occupation in a joinery and teacher at the Progymnasium in Hammelburg |
1948-1952 | Studies of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (drawing and painting with Prof. Marxmüller and sculpture with Prof. Georgii) |
1952 | Marriage with the sculptor Ursula Jacobi (daughter of the composer Wolfgang Jacobi) |
1952-1984 | Appointment as art teacher to the secondary school Aschaffenburg (Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium) Here he meets the painter colleague Anton Bruder |
1955 | Birth of the common son Andreas Ullrich |
1950er | Artistic study trips to Italy, Spain and France |
1954/55 | Joint work with wife Ursula Ullrich-Jacobi at the war memorial in Rothenbuch |
1957/58 | Design of the Aschaffenburg town hall portal and some door handles together with wife Ursula Ullrich-Jacobi |
1957 | Art Prize of the City of Aschaffenburg |
1962-67 | Foundation of the artist group "Kontakt" in Aschaffenburg with Anton Bruder, Karl F. Borneff, Willi Götz, Curd Lessing, Helmut Weber and Ursula Ullrich-Jacobi |
1969 | Italian award "Premio Internazionale Di Pittura", Garda/Italien |
1967-2002 | Chairman of the cultural nonprofit society «Frankenbund» |
1970er | Foundation of the Aschaffenburg Group of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Lower Franconia (BBK) |
1976 | Opening of the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche as an exhibition space after Gunter Ullrich's efforts |
1992 | Prize of the Bavarian People's Foundation |
1998 | Cultural Award of the City of Aschaffenburg |
2001 | Cultural Award of the cultural nonprofit society «Frankenbund» |
2002 | Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
2008 | Construction of the large metal sculpture "AVG Monument" on a traffic island in Aschaffenburg |
2015 | Culture Prize of the District of Lower Franconia |
2018 | Died on November 10, 2018 in Aschaffenburg / Leider |