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Author: Gammel, Irene, 1959-
Title: Baroness Elsa : gender, dada, and everyday
modernity : a cultural biography / Irene Gammel.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : MIT
Press, 2002.
Description: xxv, 535 p. : ill. 23 cm. --
Notes: On title page: Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
with her signature arranged in vertical capitals
beneath and a seven-point crown above; this was
first published as a frontispiece to issue 3,
v.VII (Sept.-Dec.1920) of The Little Review. In
the lower right-hand corner, "Baroness" has been
added in white letters to the dark background
of the portrait-photo. -- As p.[v]: "Frontispiece:
Theresa Bernstein, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven,
ca. 1916-17. Oil 12 x 9 in. Francis M. Naumann
Collection, New York."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Acknowledgements, p.x-[xiv]. -- Chronology,
p. xv-[xxii]. -- Abbreviations & Archival
Information, p.[xxiii]-xxv. -- Part I: The Psychogenesis
of a Dada Personality, Chapter 1. "My Father's
House". -- Part II: Sexual Modernities in Berlin
& Munich, Chapter 2. Sexcapades in Berlin.
Chapter 3. The New Woman & the Stefan George
Circle. Chapter 4. Munich's Dionysian Avant-Garde
in 1900. Chapter 5. Felix Paul Greve: Elsa's Sex-Sun.
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Part III: New York Dada, Chapter 6. Strip/Teasing
the Bride of New York. Chapter 7. Living Dada
with Phallus in Hand & Taillight on bustle.
Chapter 8. A Citizen of Terror in Wartime. "The
Little Review" and its Dada Fuse, 1918 to 1921.
Chapter 9. The Poetic Feud of William Carlos Williams,
Ezra Pound & the Baroness. Chapter 10. A Farewell
to New York. -- p. [390]-394: Afterword / Gisela
Baronin von von Freytag-Loringhoven ; "Tubingen,
October 2000 / translated by Elske Kosta." --
Notes, p. [396]-488. --Selected Bibliography,
p. [489-522]. -- Index, p.[523]-535.
Annotation: See also the Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
Exhibition Catalogue which shows Else posing in
December 1915. It has the following motto at the
lower right edge: "The Baroness is not a futurist.
She is the future" / Marcel Duchamp. -- On inside
front cover: "Published on the occasion of the
exhibition / BARONESS ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN
/ April 25 - June 15, 2002, 2002 / Francis M.
Naumann Fine Art, LLC / Fine Arts Buiding / 22
East 80 Street / New York, New York 10021."
The "Launch" of Professor Irene Gammel's comprehensive
"Cultural Biography" of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
and of the concurrent opening of the Freytag-Loringhoven
Exhibition took place at the Francis M. Naumann
Gallery on Thursday, April 25, 2002. From the
University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, Gaby
Divay & Jan Horner were among the invited
guests, as were Julia van Haaften (NYPL Photo
Collections and Bernice Abbott specialist), and
Gisi von Freytag-Loringfhoven (Art Historian &
Gymnasium teacher in Tubingen, Germany). --
Irene, Julia & Gisi were the three participants
in the 1998 panel on Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
during the UM's international symposium "In Memoriam
FPG, 1879-1948-1998", which was marking the 50th
anniversary of Frederick Philip Grove's death.
A Video recording of this session is available
in Dafoe Reserve.
Not long ago, Gisi found out that Else & FPG
-- here in his early manifestation of Felix Paul
Greve -- WERE married after all: on August 22,
1907, they tied the knot at the "Standesamt" in
Berlin-Wilmersdorf. This means, that both parties
of the scandalous pair became bigamists in North
America: he, now Frederick Philip Grove, when
he married Catherine Wiens, his fellow teacher
in Winkler & Morden, Manitoba, on August 2,
1914. She, when she married Leo Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven
on November 19, 1913, at the City Hall in Manhattan,
New York. --
Grove, who was born in Radomno [East Prussia then,
Poland since 1945] and usually added 7, not 6
years, to his real age, declared that he was 41
[he was 35], and a widower born in Moscow, Russia.
Else, who was born in 1874, used her maiden name
Ploetz for the occasion, and reduced her age by
11 years, thus matching the age of the groom,
who was born in 1885, and 28 years old. These
details concerning Else & Greve and Else &
Leo are recorded in the new Freytag-Loringhoven
biography on pages 144 & 159/160 repectively.
In the related notes, Gisi is acknowledged as
the source of the first, D. O. Spettigue &
Paul Hjartason as the source of the second event.
Local Note: Acquired for RBR & the FPG (Greve/ Grove)
Endowment Fund on April 25, 2002 by Dr. G. Divay, Archives
& Special Collections. Donated in late June 2002. --
NOTE: This catalogue entry, and particularly, the information
provided in the "Notes", were automatically copyrighted
on July 10, 2002. All rights reserved.
Subjects: Freytag-Loringhoven,Elsa von, 1874-1927.
Artists Germany Biography.
Artists New York (State) New York Biography.
Dadaism Germany.
Dadaism New York (State) New York
ISBN: 0262072319 (hc. : alk. paper
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