Ulla Wobst

Biography

I was born in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany. After the studies of philosophy (German and English literatue and language) at the universities of Munich, Tuebingen, Berlin, Cologne, Muenster and Wuerzburg I became one of the headmasters at a German Gymnasium, responsible for the language and fine-art department and teacher for German, English and Drama. Parallely-as an autodidact- I developed my faculties of painting. Since 2001 I have been working as free lance artist in my atelier in Dortmund. My work is concentrated on man and his basic themes life, love and death but also on literature and foreign cultures. My statement is: Reality is infinite. It consists of everything revealed to us by our senses, lived an experienced, and as well includes everything imagined, felt ,dreamed and thought of. But it is not limited to all this. In the realms of spirit and soul there are no boundaries. According to this motto my images range from a more or less formal to a more or less psychedelic kind of art. For this purpose I make use of an archive of literary relations, dream projections and memories and also employ abstract, symbolic and surreal elements. In addition to a more traditional kind of style I also make use of my "kaleidoscope style" leading to a sort of texture caused by a prismatic segmentation of an image which ends in a composition arranged into a myriad of cells and coloured segments so that the composition leads a sort of independent existence. Prizes of the last time : 2012: Honourable Mention Certificate (ECAC) , Art of the mind, Chianciano /2013: 1st prize for painting London Art Biennale (Anglo-Italian Academy Award), 1st prize for painting, Biennale Chianciano (Anglo-italian Academy Award) Palm Art Award Leipzig (Special Prize Winston&Newton)