Ursula Schultze-Bluhm was born in Mittenwalde, Brandenburg, in 1921 and grew up in a middle-class environment. After the Second World War, she worked in the cultural department of the Amerika-Haus, where she met her husband, the painter Bernhard Schultze, in 1955 and with whom she shared a studio until her death in 1999. Ursula, who was self-taught in painting, was influenced by various art movements, such as Surrealism, but developed a unique style that often shows elements of Art Brut. Her complex pictorial worlds tell of metamorphoses between beauty and danger, harmony and chaos. They are inspired by personal experience, art-historical models, scientific discoveries, pop-cultural phenomena, ancient myths and fantastic stories. Her painting style is characterized by an organic fluidity in which patterns and colors flow into one another and people, animals, plants and objects merge in transformative connections. From 1959, Ursula exhibited regularly in renowned galleries, including in Paris and the USA. In 2023, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne dedicated a major retrospective to her work.
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