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Maria Anna Amalie Ullmann grew up as the child of the Viennese silk merchant and studied architect Franz Ullmann. The mother was a concert pianist. During World War I, Ullmann was sent to Sweden as part of a food relief program. From 1921 she attended classes at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Carl Witzmann (general theory of forms), Franz Čižek (ornamental theory of forms), Reinhold Klaus (stained glass and lead plating, from 1921/22) and Eugen Gustav Steinhof (sculpture, from 1924/25). The confrontation with kinetism in Čižek's class remained formative for the development of her personal style. Čižek's three most famous and successful students - Erika Giovanna Klien, Elisabeth Karlinsky and My Ullmann - were called the trio infernale at the arts and crafts school because of their talent and eccentric personalities. In 1924 Ullmann's first exhibition with the Čižek class took place. Ullmann created a constructivist frieze for this. Her interest in theater was strengthened by Friedrich Kiesler's International Exhibition of New Theater Technology, which took place in the fall of 1924, among other things. Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet was shown. The theater and revue equipment opened up new fields of activity for Ullmann. From 1925 she worked as a freelance artist and craftswoman in Vienna; She created 19 textile designs for the company Joh. Backhausen & Söhne and began working as a commercial artist. In 1931 she was hired for the costume design and advertising graphics for the Festive Games in Lucerne. She then worked at the Zurich City Theater. In 1932, Ullmann moved to Berlin, where she worked as a commercial artist and taught at the Berlin Textile and Fashion School. In 1933 she designed the costumes for the Berlin carnival ball The Colorful Lantern of the Association for German Arts and Crafts and tried to gain a foothold in the theater. For the 1935/36 season, Ullmann was hired as a set designer and head of the costume workshops at the theater in Münster, and she worked at the theaters in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen until 1940. In 1938 she visited her sister Elisabeth Toccafondi in Florence, for whom she designed furniture, some of which is now in the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1942 Ullmann married the Hamburg construction director Gerhard Reye. The couple experienced the end of the war in Lübeck. The marriage was divorced in 1948, and a little later Ullmann married the violinist Walter Jauch. Her family initially lived on Lake Starnberg and later in Munich. In 1958 her second marriage ended in divorce. She moved to Münster and opened MY STUDIO – interior design, specializing in architectural room and wall designs. In 1973 Ullmann moved to Ballrechten-Dottingen in the Black Forest and in 1975 to Konstanz. Ullmann remained connected to kinetism throughout his life. The artist had already developed a characteristic image process during her training: figurative elements applied with quick brush strokes are integrated into abstract, simultaneous image structures with a psychedelic effect and bright color, usually with a square as the basic shape.
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