For Stoll, the most important point in his work was to give pleasure to other people. This feeling challenged him to develop more perfection in his artistry. This is the source for his later attitude as an artist, that art directly derives from personal skill and that personal skill should not be used as self-fulfilment, but to provide pleasure to oneself and to others.
Stoll's conviction also explains the variety of his styles. His works were never so abstract that there was any need of interpretation.

Ulrich Stoll explained this diversity once to his sister: He wanted to master all kinds of styles, in order to be able to optimise his work depending on the motive, mood, play of colours, or the simple needs of the customer. Ulrich Stoll was a genius in transferring the variety of his skills to fulfil the wishes of his customers.

Already during his time at university he sold numerous paintings for the – at that time – high price of 150DM. The district government of Trier also bought paintings from him. He received orders to create advertisements for example, for the textile- and tobacco industry, as well as orders from the cities of Düsseldorf and Trier.

One of the murals in the Trier Theatre was painted by Stoll.

His Professor, Mr. Dieckmann, recommended him to become an art lecturer at the Academy of Art in Frankfurt on Main. He was to start giving lectures in the winter term of 1952.

Was Ulrich Stoll aware of the few years of creativity that were left for him? It seems so, by viewing the large amount of paintings that he created in such a short time period. The offer for the appointment as a lecturer reached him too late.
On the 23 rd of June 1952 he died at the age of only 29 because of polio.

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