Artistic space #113 - Elsa von Freytag, Baroness Dada
Elsa von Freytag, Baroness Dada
Today I bring you another artist from the artistic avant-garde of the twentieth century, is recognized as one of the most influential women in the feminist movement, in addition to being multifaceted, painter, poet, and creators of performance, I'm talking about Von Freytag the baroness of the artistic movement Dadaist. Come with me to know some of the best facets of her life and work.
It was discovered by artists such as Duchamp and Man Ray. One of the common characteristics of the artists Dada of the time was the no contemplation of the art conceived as until that moment it was seen in the society, it was the new dawn of the art, a form contestatory to take the opposite to the established thing.
Having no established norm, this Baroness of Dada dedicated herself to making all kinds of works in excess and with complete freedom. Born in Germany in 1984 in the bosom of a very rich family and with parents closely linked to art, she had serious problems with her father who resorted to family violence hitting her and her mother on countless occasions, these attitudes were what motivated her to be an activist in her time on women's rights.
At that time his mother died and decided to go to Berlin to live with relatives to close the violent cycle with his father, at 19 he worked earning a living in a cabaret doing living Greek statue poses, contrary to his ethical principles was at some point linked to prostitution which gave him more arguments years later to defend even more women's rights.
Until in one of her works she met the modernist architect August Endell, her first husband who quickly introduced her to the world of art, at the age of 30 she separated from the architect and traveled to the United States and in 1913 at the age of 39 she married for the second time Baron Leopold von Freytag Loringhoven, at that time she assimilated the movement given as a lifestyle that led her to follow an unbridled life and at the same time she continued to create non-stop paintings while writing erotic poems.
For 1920 she is one of the most outstanding and controversial artists of her time, for this artist morality does not exist, there is even a story about Duchamp's urinal that was actually a gift from the Baroness herself.
But so much debauchery and a crazy life had to come to an end, in 1926 he breaks social relations with his closest friends and with his artistic circle, asking for life before the French embassy to travel to Paris but is not successful, 1 year later he manages to travel to Paris and goes into his apartment while listening to news about the newly postulated surrealist movement in which most of his friends painters and sculptors participate.
One afternoon she decided to put an end to her life, opening the methane gas pipe, died with her dog alone, and in oblivion that led her to the deepest of depressions.
In spite of all the negative things that she could drag in her life, she was a great artist that only suffered from depressions, she knew how to act to disguise it, perhaps if she had not suffered from these disorders she would have lived longer, however, the artistic legacy that she left is invaluable.
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