Impressum

In January 1945, the army command sent the "Panzer Division Wiking" paintings by Ulrich Stoll to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. He received a commendation from the highest authority and was informed that his future assignments would be made directly from Berlin. Already in March 1945, he worked for a short period at the Agency of the Ministry of Propaganda in Vienna. In April, his complete unit fell into American captivity. At the prison camp in Landshut/Bavaria, his skills as a painter were quickly discovered and he painted and portrayed many of the American occupation soldiers. The Americans even arranged for him to have his own studio, where he painted and gave art lessons until his release in the autumn of 1946.

He was made an offer to emigrate to the USA, but he refused because of family reasons.

His family had safely survived their escape from Rügen over the Baltic Sea in 1945 and arrived in Bendorf, the home town of his mother. At the end of 1946, Ulrich Stoll was reunited with his family.

Hanns Sprung, (co-founder of the Artist Community Das Boot), who owned a studio in Bendorf, became a fatherly friend to Ulrich Stoll. Together they were painting while moving around the surrounding area and countryside. His deepest desire, to start studying at the "Trierer Werkschule - Schule für Kunst und Handwerk" became a reality in 1947.

Initially, he had found food and lodging at the house of two of his mother's sisters, but then in 1949, he rented an apartment in. Ulrich Stoll and his rickety bike, his easel hung over his shoulders and his painting equipment on the rack, were well-known in the streets of Trier of the post-war period. He was always in an excellent mood, looking for "ideal" motives.

During his studies, he made close friends with Jakob Schwarzkopf, Jupp Zimmer and later on with Erich Kraemer.