"Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life."
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Quoted in Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, p 53.
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von Loringhoven, was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.
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