[1] Born in Düsseldorf, he became interested in painting at an early age and in 1919 he co-founded the group "The Young Rheinland" with other young painters of the day, including Otto Dix and Gert Heinrich Wollheim.
During the early 1920s Ulrich Leman was a Meisterschüler under Heinrich Nauen at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
At the end of the 1920s Leman made his first trip to Majorca and decided to move there.
With his renowned style he incorporated the themes of the Spanish island, its landscapes, people and their personalities.
No other artist has understood quite so well, the characteristic features of the island, its appeal and its inflexibility and captured it so well in his works.