Who was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven?
Who was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven?
Born Elsa Hildegard Ploetz to a middle-class family in 1874, Elsa was the elder of two siblings. She was not born a “Baroness,” as she would later come to be known, but acquired the name von Freytag-Loringhoven when she married.
What is the purpose of the poem Freytag-Loringhoven?
Freytag-Loringhoven elevates the everyday and industrial to art and asks us to question the use-value and aesthetic-value of art. God shows a Dadaist irreverence toward the authority of a higher power, substituting the holy image with that of lowly plumbing materials.
How did Ida-Marie Freytag-Loringhoven die?
Freytag-Loringhoven described her mother as having a “sweetness and intensity – passionate temperament – only softer as I – kept subdued – regulated by custom-convention .” Ida-Marie died of uterine cancer in February of 1893, when Freytag-Loringhoven was just nineteen.
What did Freytag-Loringhoven write in a letter to Sarah Freedman McPherson?
In a letter to artist Sarah Freedman McPherson, Freytag-Loringhoven wrote: “Sarah, if you find a tin can on the street stand by it until a truck runs over it. Then bring it to me.”
