Micha Ullman, member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and professor emeritus at the Stuttgart Art Academy, lives near Tel Aviv. He has become known far beyond the borders of his country and far beyond those of Germany, not only with the aforementioned memorial to the burning of books on 10 May 1933. He represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and twice at the Biennale in Sao Paulo. Invitations to "documenta 8" (1987) and "documenta IX" (1992) and to other important international exhibitions repeatedly demonstrated the importance of his work. in 1989 he was a DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin. In addition to the memorial on Bebelplatz, he has created two other works for public spaces in Berlin: the sculpture "Niemand" (1990) in Lindenstraße opposite the Jewish Museum and the "Blatt" (1997), which traces the floor plan of a synagogue destroyed by the Nazis with benches not far away, at Axel-Springer-Straße 48 - 50. Works for public spaces have also been created in other German cities such as Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Bamberg. He has also worked internationally: in Italy, Finland, Australia, Poland and elsewhere. The Museum Wiesbaden honoured him with a major exhibition in 2003 and a retrospective of his work is currently on show at the reopened Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Among other awards, the artist received the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1995 and the Israel Prize, the country's highest honour for the arts, in 2009.
