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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

1874 - 1927

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Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; 12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven has received more than 368,576 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is the 47th most popular artist, the 452nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 436th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Artist.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ranks 47 out of 125. Before her are Herbert Bayer, Hermann Nitsch, Nicholas of Verdun, Ivan Fyodorov, Theo Jansen, and Bill Viola. After her are Carlos Páez Vilaró, Hasui Kawase, William Etty, Yoshitaka Amano, Bruno Munari, and Gottfried Helnwein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ranks 69. Before her are Wu Peifu, Johannes Schober, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Marguerite Long, Avgustyn Voloshyn, and Max Dvořák. After her are Huang Xing, Paul Wegener, Lewis Hine, Princess Anna of Montenegro, René-Louis Baire, and Serge Koussevitzky. Among people deceased in 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ranks 48. Before her are Hugo Schuchardt, Victorine Meurent, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, William, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Ahad Ha'am. After her are Fyodor Sologub, Jonas Basanavičius, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Fritz Hofmann, Lizzie Borden, and Ottavio Bottecchia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ranks 452 out of 1,694. Before her are Lubomyr Husar (1933), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Gustav Freytag (1816), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Aleksander Krupa (1947), and Maria Cunitz (1610). After her are Werner Lorenz (1891), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), and Julian Tuwim (1894).

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Among ARTISTS In Poland

Among artists born in Poland, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ranks 2. Before her are Adolph Menzel (1815).

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