Dada Queen

Die New York Times*) (18.8.) erinnert an die Dadaistin

Elsa von Freytag–Loringhoven, die vor 75 Jahren auf mysteriöse Weise in Paris ums Leben kam:

A Dada poet and collagist, artists‘ model and troublemaker, she was called by those who knew her simply “the Baroness.“ In the late 1910’s and early 1920’s, the Baroness reigned among the intellectual avant-garde who laughed at sexual taboos and made art their revolution. But in the wildly colorful hothouse of Greenwich Village bohemia, the Baroness was the most exotic blossom of them all. “She is not a futurist,“ Marcel Duchamp said. “She is the future.“