Angelika Rochhausen, Harlequin Couple. 1972. Angelika Rochhausen1942 Neukirchen/Pleiße - 2017 Leipzig Oil on hardboard. Signed "Angelika" and dated on the right. Provenance: Dresden private property, acquired around 1993 in the artist's studio. Tiny painting layer chipping in the trunk u.li.. Verso slightly glittering binder in the depths of the hardboard structure. Dimensions: 16,3 x 12,2 cm. Angelika Rochhausen 1942 Neukirchen/Pleiße - 2017 Leipzig German painter and graphic artist. Childhood in Leipzig, studied art education and German language and literature at Karl Marx University there from 1960-64. Rochhausen's artistic mentor was Hans Schulze, her art history teacher. 1964-79 worked as an art teacher at various Leipzig schools. Declared mentally disturbed in 1973 after writing a slogan about love and human dignity on the wall of a classroom. As a result, she was admitted to a psychiatric ward and disqualified from practicing her profession. From 1981 freelance artist.