Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven / Dada

Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
- One word...nutcase!
- Born 1874, died 1927
- German
- Avant-garde, Dada artist and poet
- She suggested the idea of 'Fountain' to Duchamp
- She died mysteriously next to her lapdog from a gas leak in her flat in Paris
- She was a self proclaimed anarchist
- She found what she wore, from shower curtain rings as bracelets to postage stamps as beauty marks
- She was a living Dada artwork. She quite literally LIVED Dada.
- She took 1920s flapper-esque fashion and distorted it
- She wore tin can bras and carried her tiny mangy dog like an accessory to poke fun at upper crust notions of breeding.
- "The Baroness is not a Futurist. She is the future." quote from Marcel Duchamp.
- Undervalued precursor to the feminist punk movement of the 1990s and even conceptual pop artist Lady Gaga.
- "She challenged cultural and gender norms through her art, writing, 'artistic clothes' and her daily interaction with people."
- "She is described variously with half shaved head, dyed hair, spoons dangling from her ears, postage stamps stuck on her cheeks, sporting a bra made out of tomato cans and bracelets made out of stolen curtain rings, In this way she used her body to address the commodification of femininity in its extremity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_von_Freytag-Loringhoven

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/obsession-baroness-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven#_

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elsa_von_Freytag-Loringhoven

http://www.influxpress.com/the-anti-canon-baroness-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven-and-the-principle-of-non-acquiescence-by-kyra-hanson/