Angelika Hasse (Neunkirchen 1960) has lived in the Netherlands for 28 years.

Born and raised in the German Saarland, she completed studies of graphic design at the Fachhochschule in Mainz. She then moved to The Hague, where she worked as a graphic designer.

Following her heart, she chose to become an artist and took lessons at the Free Academy.

Given her years of experience in creating a combination of text and form on assignment, it is not surprising that text fragments appear in her work.

She is partly inspired by advertisements and commercials in magazines to which her parents subscribed. She thus playfully keeps in touch with her German background and language and pays tribute to the stylish design from the fifties and sixties, when craftsmanship had not yet been taken over by the computer...