Punk as fuck.
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1874 - 1927
“The first American Dada, the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, Loves Dada, Lives Dada.”
• Coal scuttle handle under chin.
• Postage stamp beauty mark
• tomato cans as bra
• Birdcage as necklace
• Shaved head painted with red lacquer
• teaspoon earrings,
• Black lipstick, yellow face powder.
• Bolero and tea balls on her breasts
• Birthday cake with 50 Lit candles on head to French embassy in Berlin.
• Gilded porcupine quill eyelashes
• Dried fig necklace.
• Tin soldiers pinned to her skirt
A friend advised to think of Elsa ''in as detached a way as you possibly can -- not as a saint or a madwoman, but as a woman of genius, alone in the world, frantic.''
--She slept in various parks in upper Manhattan, writing poetry. Here is one of her writings:
Appalling Heart (September-December 1920)
City stir--wind on eardrum--
dancewind : herbstained--
flowerstained--silken--rustling--
tripping--swishing--frolicking--
courtesing--careening--brushing--
flowing--lying down--bending--
teasing--kissing : treearms--grass--
limbs--lips.
City stir on eardrum-- .
In night lonely
peers-- :
moon--riding !
pale--with beauty aghast--
too exalted to share !
in space blue--rides she away from mine chest--
illumined strangely--
appalling sister !
Herbstained--flowerstained--
shellscented--seafaring--
foresthunting--junglewise--
desert gazing--
rides heart from chest--
lashing with beauty--
afleet--
across chimney--
tinfoil river--
to meet--
another's dark heart--
Bless mine feet !
++ All in all, I love everything about this woman. I love how crazy she was, I love her style, and I love her art.
Some art work:
Sculpture titled "God"
Portrait of Duchamp
++ She was also the inspiration for the 2002 New York Times shoot with Brittney Murphy:
Crazy Glamourous.
“The first American Dada, the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, Loves Dada, Lives Dada.”
• Coal scuttle handle under chin.
• Postage stamp beauty mark
• tomato cans as bra
• Birdcage as necklace
• Shaved head painted with red lacquer
• teaspoon earrings,
• Black lipstick, yellow face powder.
• Bolero and tea balls on her breasts
• Birthday cake with 50 Lit candles on head to French embassy in Berlin.
• Gilded porcupine quill eyelashes
• Dried fig necklace.
• Tin soldiers pinned to her skirt
A friend advised to think of Elsa ''in as detached a way as you possibly can -- not as a saint or a madwoman, but as a woman of genius, alone in the world, frantic.''
--She slept in various parks in upper Manhattan, writing poetry. Here is one of her writings:
Appalling Heart (September-December 1920)
City stir--wind on eardrum--
dancewind : herbstained--
flowerstained--silken--rustling--
tripping--swishing--frolicking--
courtesing--careening--brushing--
flowing--lying down--bending--
teasing--kissing : treearms--grass--
limbs--lips.
City stir on eardrum-- .
In night lonely
peers-- :
moon--riding !
pale--with beauty aghast--
too exalted to share !
in space blue--rides she away from mine chest--
illumined strangely--
appalling sister !
Herbstained--flowerstained--
shellscented--seafaring--
foresthunting--junglewise--
desert gazing--
rides heart from chest--
lashing with beauty--
afleet--
across chimney--
tinfoil river--
to meet--
another's dark heart--
Bless mine feet !
++ All in all, I love everything about this woman. I love how crazy she was, I love her style, and I love her art.
Some art work:
Sculpture titled "God"
Portrait of Duchamp
++ She was also the inspiration for the 2002 New York Times shoot with Brittney Murphy:
Crazy Glamourous.