Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

thumb|Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven, was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States. Quotes Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 53. I had sexlogic implanted and used it. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54. We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality--higher than society in its hypocritical meshes. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54. [I had] pushed through to a spiritual sex: art--that nobody protects as readily as a charming love body of flesh. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54. All who want me would like to eat me up, But I am too expansive and am open to all sides, desire this here and that there. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 105. Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America. Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 251-252. About [The Baroness] is not a futurist. She is the future. Marcel Duchamp quoted in Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century. People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them. Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17. [The Baroness was] a citizen of terror, a contemporary without a country. Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17. Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and [...] the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire. John Rodker, "Dada' and Else von Freytag-Loringhoven," The Little Review 7.2 (May-June 1920): p 36. External links Category:Dada Category:Poets from Germany Category:Women authors from Germany Category:Women artists from Germany Category:LGBT people Category:1874 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Women born in the 1870s