Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
German poet
Died when: 53 years 156 days (641 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self-displays came to embody a living Dada.
She was considered one of the most controversial and radical women artists of the era.Her provocative poetry was published posthumously in 2011 in Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
The New York Times praised the book as one of the notable art books of 2011.
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