 He was first violin of the Kulenkampff Quartet from 1944, and among his students was the Italian-American Ruggiero Ricci from San Francisco.Kulenkampff died in Schaffhausen, Switzerland of encephalitis (spinal paralysis) at age 50, suffering a rapid onset soon after his last concert.His memoirs appeared posthumously in 1952, entitled 'A Violinist's Observations' ("Geigerische Betrachtungen").