Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Quotes

Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York.

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. July 1874 – 15. December 1927
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Famous Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Quotes

“People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them.”

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Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17.
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“[The Baroness was] a citizen of terror, a contemporary without a country.”

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Djuna Barnes quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 17.
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“We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality--higher than society in its hypocritical meshes.”

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Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54.

“[The Baroness] is not a futurist. She is the future.”

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Marcel Duchamp quoted in Kenneth Rexroth, American Poetry in the Twentieth Century.
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“I had sexlogic implanted and used it.”

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Quotes

“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.”

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 105.

“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.”

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John Rodker, "Dada' and Else von Freytag-Loringhoven," The Little Review 7.2 (May-June 1920): p 36.
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“[I had] pushed through to a spiritual sex: art--that nobody protects as readily as a charming love body of flesh.”

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 54.

“Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life.”

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 53.

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