Experimenting with forms and colours to combine tension and order in the same work of art: with the acrylic painting 'Absolute Schrift', Mili Schmalzl taught young artists at the art school in St. Ulrich. Schmalzl, a woman from the woodcarving valley, was born in 1912 and succeeded in getting into Italy's and Germany's art academies to train as a painter.

In 1872, Ferdinand Demetz da Furdenen opened the first public training workshop for sculptors in St. Ulrich. The multi-storey building on the eastern edge of St. Ulrich was purchased by the local council in 1938 and the art school that had in the meantime moved out moved back in again. In 1999, a new construction was set up on the spot of the original Cademia building, which houses the art school today.