Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Freytag-Loringhoven portrait, with ink decoration added by the Baroness, as it appeared in the September–December 1920 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 3) of The Little Review (New York).
Born	Else Hildegard Plötz 12 July 1874 Swinemünde, Province of Pomerania, German Empire
Died	14 December 1927(1927-12-14) (aged 53) Paris, France
Known for	Poetry, sound poetry
Notable work	Body Sweats
Movement	New York Dada, avant-garde
Spouse(s)	August Endell Frederick Philip Grove Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; 12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born 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 women artists of the era.

Her provocative poetry was published posthumously in 2011 in Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.^[1] The New York Times praised the book as one of the notable art books of 2011.^[2]