Angelika Hoerle

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Angelika Hoerle: Man with Eye Removed , hand drawing, 1921. Fick-Eggert Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario

Margaretha Angelika Hoerle , née Fick, (born November 20, 1899 in Cologne ; † September 7, 1923 there ) was a German avant-garde painter and graphic artist in the early 1920s. She belonged to the Cologne Dada group “Stupid”.

life and work

Margaretha Angelika Fick Hoerle was born as the daughter of the cabinet maker Richard AM Fick and his wife Anna Maria (née Kraft). She lived with her parents and siblings Maria, Richard and the later painter Willy Fick at Krefelder Wall 16 in Cologne. She took part in the regular chamber music evenings and discussion groups of her family and thus came into contact with the cultural and art scene in her hometown at an early age.

After finishing school, she accepted an apprenticeship as a milliner and at the same time continued her artistic training as an autodidact . At the end of 1916 she met the aspiring painter Heinrich Hoerle (1895–1936), whom she married in 1919 against the will of her family. She and her husband moved into an apartment at Bachemer Strasse 243 in Cologne-Lindenthal , which became the “dadaheim”. This served as the publishing address for the Schloemilch-Verlag , which published the international Dadaist magazine Die Schammade and Max Ernst's lithograph portfolio Fiat Modes , but was also a popular meeting place for the Cologne Dadaists.

The personal experience of the World War and the encounter with hardship and misery in post-war Germany - her brother Richard returned home seriously injured and incurable - brought Angelika Hoerle to the side of the revolutionary artists. In 1919 Hans Arp came to Cologne from Zurich, where he and Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck founded the Dadaist movement. He made contact with Max Ernst and Johannes Theodor Baargeld and together with them founded the Cologne Dada group “Stupid”, which Angelika and Heinrich Hoerle, Anton and Martha Räderscheidt , Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and her brother Willy Fick joined. She and her friends viewed the Stupid group as a social revolutionary project. Angelika Hoerle's entry finally led to a break with her father.

She quickly attracted attention with her subtle drawings, and she was successful with her surreal portraits ( Man with Eye Removed , 1921, Fick-Eggert Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario ), still lifes and prints. In 1919 she worked - together with Seiwert - on the linocut portfolio Lebendige , which contained portraits of political martyrs, and contributed portraits of the murdered revolutionaries Jean Jaurès and Eugen Leviné . In 1920 she and her husband turned to the socially critical-constructivist style of Franz Wilhelm Seiwert; she and her husband no longer took part in the DADA early spring exhibition in the “Brauhaus Winter” in Cologne in April 1920. During visits to Simonskall, she made contacts with the Kall valley community .

In 1922 Hoerle fell ill with tuberculosis . When her husband left her for fear of infection, she was taken back by her family - through the mediation of her brother Willy; her father found himself ready for reconciliation shortly before her death. Angelika Hoerle died in 1923 at the age of 23 in her parents' apartment on Krefelder Wall. She was buried in Cologne's Westfriedhof , the grave no longer exists.

She was no longer able to finish her edition project ABC picture book (lamp, bird, fish, house). During the National Socialist era , her brother Willy hid her work from 35 preserved works. This was rediscovered in 1967 by the curator and great-niece of the artist Angie Littlefield in the Willy Ficks garden house in Cologne-Vogelsang .

Exhibitions

  • 2008 Junkerhaus Simonskall, Hürtgenwald, Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft 1919–1921 - The Cologne Progressives in Simonskall
  • 2009 Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada Art
  • 2009 Museum Ludwig Cologne, Angelika Hoerle: Comet of the Cologne avant-garde

literature

Web links

Commons : Angelika Hoerle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual notes

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 703 dated September 8, 1923, registry office Cologne II. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ burial place. In: AngieLittlefield.com. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoerle, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fick, Margaretha Angelika (maiden name); Fuck Hoerle, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, Cologne Dadaist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1923
Place of death Cologne