Her sibling Willy Fick (1893–1967), while apprenticed as a cabinet maker, took evening and weekend courses at the Koelner Kunstgewerbeschule where he met artists Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Anton Raederscheidt and Marta Hegemann.

For a honeymoon the couple went to Simonskall in the Eifel Mountains where the Jatho family and Seiwert established the artists’ colony called Kalltalgemeinschaft.

That same year the couple was involved in pre-dada disruptive activities that included distributing Der Ventilator, a leftist journal at factory gates and illegally placarding buildings with art, such as a proof print of Heinrich Hoerle's Krueppelmappe.

Angelika Hoerle's art career officially began in 1919 with the publication of Lebendige, a folder of six woodcuts that depicted murdered revolutionaries.

In the September 1919 issue of Sozialistische Republik she followed Lebendige with a cartoon that parodied Cologne's police chief and showed her knowledge of local politics.

The splinter exhibition, called Section D, issued a catalogue, Bulletin D that showed her, Heinrich Hoerle, Seiwert, Max Ernst and Raederscheidt as participants.

In February 1920 the Graphisches Kabinet von Bergh & Co in Duesseldorf exhibited the Section D works, thus providing it with some heft, and Angelika co-founded the Stupid group with her brother Willy, the Raederscheidts and Seiwert.

[8] Simultaneously, she co-founded Schloemilch Verlag with her husband and it published Max Ernst's folder of prints called Fiat modes, pereat ars (Let there be fashion, down with art)[9] which echoed elements that Angelika used in her own drawings.

Angelika's two ironic pencil drawings, Hotelboy und Mann I and II poke fun at the hotel staff that was flummoxed by the brouhaha that ensued when the nonsensical activities began.