Angelika Hoerle (

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Margaretha Angelika Fick; 20 November 1899 – 9 September 1923) was a

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Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...

artist who was a founding member of the Cologne art group

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and the cofounder of a Dadaist publishing house. Angelika Hoerle Mann mit Auge

Life

She was born Margaretha Angelika Fick on 20 November 1899 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, Germany. She was the daughter of cabinetmaker Richard August Michael Fick and Anna Maria (Kraft) Fick. She had three siblings, one of whom was fellow

artist

Willy Fick Wilhelm Peter Hubert Fick (February 7, 1893 – October 3, 1967), called Willy Fick, was a German graphic artist born in Cologne. He belonged to the Dada movement, and in 1919 became a founding member of the artist circle called Stupid, together ...

. Largely self-taught as an artist because the German art schools of the day did not admit women, in 1915 she became an apprentice

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. In 1919, she married the painter

Heinrich Hoerle Heinrich Hoerle (1 September 1895 – 7 July 1936) was a German constructivist artist of the New Objectivity movement. Hoerle was born in Cologne. He studied at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts but was mostly self-taught as an artist. Afte ...

. In 1922 she contracted

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. She died the following year on 9 September 1923, aged 23-years-old. She was buried in Cologne's West Cemetery.

Art career

In 1919, she and Heinrich moved to an apartment in Cologne-Lindenthal that they named "dadaheim" (Dada home). Here they founded the Schloemilch Verlag publishing house, which published the international dadaist magazine '' Die Schammade'' and

Max Ernst Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism ...

's portfolio of lithographs entitled ''Fiat modes pereat ars''. It was also a popular meeting place for the Cologne Dadaists. In the same year, Hoerle and her husband were among the founding members of the art group

. Hoerle worked in a variety of styles ranging from caricature to Dada-inflected surrealism, mainly in the media of drawings, prints, and collages. Her surreal portraits quickly drew attention, but her career was cut short by her early death from tuberculosis. Much of her work was destroyed by the Nazis as '

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', but her brother Willy hid 35 pieces, which were rediscovered in 1967. Portraits of her were painted by Heinrich as well as by such artists as

Jankel Adler Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler; 26 July 1895 – 25 April 1949) was a Polish Jewish painter and printmaking, printmaker. Biography Jankiel Jakub Adler was born as the seventh of ten children in Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź. In 1912 he be ...

Anton Räderscheidt Anton Räderscheidt (October 11, 1892 – March 8, 1970) was a German painter who was a leading figure of the New Objectivity. Räderscheidt was born in Cologne. His father was a schoolmaster who also wrote poetry. From 1910 to 1914, Räderscheidt ...

, and

Marta Hegemann Marta Hegemann (February 14, 1894 – January 28, 1970) was a German artist associated with the Dada movement and with the Cologne Progressives. She was a founding member of the Cologne art group Stupid. Life Hegemann was born in Düsseldorf and ...

Recent exhibitions

* 2008 Junker Simonskall, Hürtgenwald: ''Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft 1919-1921 - The Cologne Progressives in Simonskall'' * 2009 Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: ''Angelika Hoerle: Cologne Comet of Dada'' * 2009 Museum Ludwig Cologne: ''Angelika Hoerle: Comet of the Avantgarde''

In popular culture

Hoerle's great-niece Angelika Littlefield wrote a play about her, ''Angelika's Promise'', produced at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2009. Music: "Comets and Shadows" by Italo-Canadian composer Ennio A. Paola, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9lGd8pfZo In 2016, the German writer Ute Bales wrote a novelization of Hoerle's life, ''Die Welt zerschlagen: Die Geschichte der Dada-Künstlerin Angelika Hoerle'' (The World Shattered: The Story of Dada Artist Angelika Hoerle). Music: "The World Is Smashed , The World Is Shattered" by Italo-Canadian composer Ennio A. Paola" https://soundcloud.com/ennio-a-paola/world-is-smashed... "Comets & Shadows "- Sound Signature for projects on the brief life & times of Dada of Cologne artist Angelika Hoerle , which was given to readings by the author in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral (Bad Ems), in the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), in Simonskall. In February 2019 the piece premiered in a version for string quartet aboard "Oceania, Marina", Bora, Bora, South Seas, Pacific Ocean with Quadrivium Quartet (Poland)

Life

Art career

Recent exhibitions

In popular culture

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