Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
German artist and poet
- Lived
- 1874–1927
- Country
- Germany
Updated September 2026
About Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self-displays came to embody a living Dada. She was considered one of the most controversial and radical artists of the era.
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