Ulla von Gemmingen
Ulrike Gertrud Brigitte Annelies "Ulla" von Gemmingen (born January 6, 1949 in Bad Wimpfen ) is a museum educator and visual artist.
Life
She comes from the 2nd sub-branch (Stuttgart) of the Fürfeld line of the barons of Gemmingen-Guttenberg and is a daughter of Major a. D. Sigmund von Gemmingen (* 1913) and Gerda Maria Soika (* 1921).
The parents were bombed out in Stuttgart during the Second World War and lived in the first post-war years until the restoration of their Stuttgart house in Schloss Fürfeld , where Ulla spent her early childhood. The family then moved back to Stuttgart, where they attended school and graduated from the Königin-Charlotte-Gymnasium . She then studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Thomas Zacharias and Karlfried Dahmen . Afterwards she was a trainee teacher at various schools before switching to museum education in 1979, where she carried out experimental projects with migrants at Munich museums. She advanced to head of department for experimental museum education and later until 2006 to head of department and program area for culture, art and creativity at the Munich Adult Education Center . In 1990 she published a book about her museum educational work with migrants. She also received teaching assignments at the universities in Bremen and Munich and was awarded a prize for innovation in adult education in 2003.
In addition to her professional activity, she was always active as a freelance artist, initially also in a team with her sister Susanne von Gemmingen and her brother-in-law Mirsad Taslaman, both of whom are academic painters in Munich. Her work includes abstract painting and printmaking. In addition to her studio in Munich, she also set up a studio for large-format work in Fürfeld Castle. A first solo exhibition of her works was on view in 1984/85 in the Steiner Gallery in Babstadt Castle . Since the late 1990s, she has mainly exhibited in Munich galleries. Since 2009 she has mainly been working on graphic sheets, oil paintings, stone lithographs, collagrafs and multi-colored etchings.
Publications
- This color is like your green eyes to me: Museum workshop with foreigners , Lecke + Budrich Verlag, Obladen 1990, ISBN 3-8100-0841-9
Awards
- Prize for innovation of the German adult education of the DIE , Bonn 2003
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1984/85: Galerie Steiner, Babstadt Castle (with Susanne von Gemmingen)
- 1994: Art Forum Arabellapark , Munich
- 2001: Galerie Méautis, Munich
- 2011: Gallery on the Black Sea, Bremen
- 2014: Bad Rappenau moated castle
- 2016: House of Education, Schwäbisch Hall
literature
- Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966.
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband eV 1991, pp. 74/75.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Ulla von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ulrike Gertrud Brigite Annelies von Gemmingen-Guttenberg-Fürfeld (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German museum educator and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Wimpfen |