Ulli Kampelmann

Ulli Kampelmann

Ulli Kampelmann
Born Halle (Saale), East Germany
Nationality German
Spouse(s) Steven Van Stone
(m. 2002 - present)
Children Corvin

Ulli Kampelmann is a professional artist and educator from Germany, currently based in Florida.

Early life

Ulli is the fifth of six children born to Wilhelm Heinrich Kampelmann and Elsa (née Pilz) in Halle (Saale), Sachsen Anhalt, East Germany.

She was drawn to teaching and the arts from an early age.

She attended university in Halle where she earned her Master of Education degree and then continued her study in Educational Philosophy at Technische Universität Berlin.

In 1975 she successfully escaped to West Berlin in the trunk of a friend’s car.

Artistic career

A section of partition wall created for the bistro within the Mercedes Benz Headquarters showroom in Stuttgart

Ulli opened her first art studio in Stuttgart in 1980.

Iconic Turn, a diptych.

Besides her works in private collections, the following is a partial list of where Ulli Kampelmann's artworks can be found:

Some of Ulli Kampelmann's artworks on her exhibition at the Stuttgart International Airport.

Some of her exhibitions:

Educator

Ulli Kampelmann is a Master of Education and Educational Philosophy with special emphasis on teaching art, German language, mathematics and educating teachers on how to teach. She was invited to give art seminars and to publish educational articles about art and art history in various magazines.

After she opened her studio in the USA, she was commissioned to write a complete visual arts curriculum for schools K-12. This curriculum is currently implemented into a few schools in the USA and Australia. She continued to write educational articles about public art and was commissioned to provide continuing education for architects in the field of public arts projects. Most recently she took up the production of educational films and documentaries.

In May 2014, Ms. Kampelmann founded the Kampelmann Academy which will be an online, video-based education site offering complete school curricula from kindergarten through high school and beyond in numerous languages. The concept is to provide aesthetic video tutorials to bring about full conceptual understanding of a subject with concurrent facility in application of that subject in life.

In 2016, Kampelmann Productions was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization to oversee an educational project she created to teach the German language to the refugees pouring into central Europe.

Author

For schools, she wrote "the Complete Visual Arts Education". (as mentioned above in Educator section)

Ulli was a contributing author for Imago Magazine for six months with her article titled Ulli on Art.[7]

For The Star, the magazine of the Mercedes Benz Club of America, Ulli wrote an article about the first ever long-distance road-trip in an automobile in 1888, which was made by a woman, Bertha Benz, wife of Carl Benz, inventor of the automobile.[8]

She authored a full length screenplay detailing the circumstances surrounding her life in and escapes from East Germany.[9]

Filmmaker

While in Stuttgart, Ulli Kampelmann was commissioned by the Mercedes Benz company to create large artworks for their headquarters. In order to research ideas for one of the commissions, she was given access to the Mercedes Benz/Daimler AG corporate archives where she came across the little-known details of the invention of the automobile by Carl Benz in 1885 as well as the charming story of the first ever long distance road trip by Carl's wife Bertha. Once Ulli was in the USA she wished to present this story to Americans. She wrote the screenplay for and directed an educational documentary titled The Car is Born - a documentary about Carl and Bertha Benz. She and her husband, a videographer, entered this documentary into a few film festivals and it won a "Best of the Fest" award in 2011.[10][11]

A documentary detailing her own personal experiences growing up in and eventually escaping from East Germany called That Damned Wall, is in post-production.

External links

References

  1. ↑ City of Karlsruhe Official Website - List of public artists
  2. ↑ Ulli Kampelmann's artwork in Vierortdbad
  3. ↑ http://www.golf-bondorf.de/news/golf-natur.html
  4. ↑ Karlsruhe: Kunst am Bau (Public Art)
  5. ↑ City of Clearwater's Public Art Program
  6. ↑ Achim Freyer's Kunsthaus
  7. ↑ Tampa Bay Informer Newspaper article about Ulli's various works
  8. ↑ The Star magazine
  9. ↑ Synopsis of the screenplay "Escapings"
  10. ↑ Official Best of the Fest Award Winners 2011
  11. ↑ IMDb The Car is Born
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