Angelika Hoerle
26 Sep 2009 - 17 Jan 2010
ANGELIKA HOERLE
"Comet of the Cologne Avant-garde"
26.09.2009 – 17.01.2010
Angelika Fick Hoerle (1899-1923) lived hard and died young. In spite of her youth, she left a promising artistic legacy. Moving through the influences of WW I, the German Revolution and Dada, she developed artistic styles that foreshadowed Surrealism and the Cologne Progressives.
Angelika's apartment in Lindenthal, the ‘dadaheim' with its Schloemilch Verlag, was both a meeting place and the publishing house for Max Ernst's Fiat Modes and the international Dada magazine, Die Schammade. Nicknamed "Dada Angelika" by friends and dubbed the German Master of Dada by a newspaper, Angelika went on to co-found the Stupid Group and become a voice for women along with her best friend Marta Hegeman. When Angelika died of tuberculosis at 22 years of age, her brother, the artist Willy Fick, paid the back rent on the apartment where she had lived alone since the fall of 1922; he wanted to save her things. Willy Fick hid Angelika's works, and those of her politically active friends, from the National Socialists when the artists represented were labelled degenerate.
In 1967, Angie Littlefield, the curator of this exhibition, and grand-niece of the artist siblings, found this precious time capsule of the Cologne arts scene 1919-1923 in Fick's garden shed in Cologne Vogelsang. The oeuvre of Angelika Hoerle reveals an intensely personal story filled with pathos and humour. It explores artistic, political and social changes in the early days of the Weimar Republic. Most significantly, it opens an interesting new window on Cologne's art history from the perspective of a young, politically engaged, female artist.
The exhibition has been organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Curator: Angie Littlefield (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)
"Comet of the Cologne Avant-garde"
26.09.2009 – 17.01.2010
Angelika Fick Hoerle (1899-1923) lived hard and died young. In spite of her youth, she left a promising artistic legacy. Moving through the influences of WW I, the German Revolution and Dada, she developed artistic styles that foreshadowed Surrealism and the Cologne Progressives.
Angelika's apartment in Lindenthal, the ‘dadaheim' with its Schloemilch Verlag, was both a meeting place and the publishing house for Max Ernst's Fiat Modes and the international Dada magazine, Die Schammade. Nicknamed "Dada Angelika" by friends and dubbed the German Master of Dada by a newspaper, Angelika went on to co-found the Stupid Group and become a voice for women along with her best friend Marta Hegeman. When Angelika died of tuberculosis at 22 years of age, her brother, the artist Willy Fick, paid the back rent on the apartment where she had lived alone since the fall of 1922; he wanted to save her things. Willy Fick hid Angelika's works, and those of her politically active friends, from the National Socialists when the artists represented were labelled degenerate.
In 1967, Angie Littlefield, the curator of this exhibition, and grand-niece of the artist siblings, found this precious time capsule of the Cologne arts scene 1919-1923 in Fick's garden shed in Cologne Vogelsang. The oeuvre of Angelika Hoerle reveals an intensely personal story filled with pathos and humour. It explores artistic, political and social changes in the early days of the Weimar Republic. Most significantly, it opens an interesting new window on Cologne's art history from the perspective of a young, politically engaged, female artist.
The exhibition has been organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Curator: Angie Littlefield (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)