b. 1874, Germany
d. 1927
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (b. 1874, Swinemunde, Germany - 1924, Paris, France)
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, “the Baroness” as she was known, became a living legend in the bohemian enclave of New York City's Greenwich Village in the years before and after World War I. A provocateur and essential catalyst for New York's burgeoning Dada movement, the Baroness obliterated the boundaries of conventional norms of womanhood and femininity and upended notions of what was considered art. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven received two posthumous retrospectives at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, NY (2002); and at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich and Berlin’s Literaturhaus, Berlin (2005).