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due to severe psychosis. She had married a schoolteacher four years earlier, and was also the mother of two daughters, her husband and family being subjects of her psychosis. While institutionalized, Hauck wrote a series of letters to her husband which later were considered to be artworks, though she
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known for her artistic, handwritten letters to her husband while she was institutionalized in a mental hospital. Though these letters were never delivered, they have since come to be regarded as works of art due to their abstraction and repetitive content. In many cases the letters consist of only
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likely did not consider them works of art herself. Hauck was released from
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579:"Two spring premieres: PYGmalion Theatre Company's Sweetheart Come by Melissa Leilani Larson; Efren Corado's Dust. Breath. Place. For RDT Link | the Utah Review"
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Vergissmeinnicht - Psychiatriepatienten und
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565:"Theater Review: Pygmalion Theatre Co.'s "Sweetheart Come""
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Marshall, Catherine; Thompson, Jon; Ades, Dawn (1998).
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Animation
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Art unsolved: The
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Beyme, Ingrid von; Hohnholz, Sabine (27 March 2018).
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Hauck's letters were included in the 2000 exhibition
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