| 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. --
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 |
Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
