Early Life
She started of studying art in Duchau, near Munich, before marrying in 1901, Berlin based architect, August Endell at which time she became Else Endell. She had and open relationship with her husband, and in 1902 she became involved romantically with a friend of Endell's the minor poet and translator Felix Paul Grove (who later became the Canadian author Frederick Phillip Grove), And all three went to Palermo in late January 1903. They then moved to various places, including Wollerau, Switzerland and Paris-Plague France. In 1906 She and Grove returned to Berlin, where they were married on August 22 1907. In July 1910, she followed Grove to North America, where they operated a small farm in Sparta Kentucky, not far from Cincinnati, Ohio. Grove eventually left in 1911, and went west to Bonanza farm near Fargo, North Dakota, and came to Manitoba in 1912. She started modelling for artists in Cincinnati, and made her way east West Virginia and Philadelphia, Before she married her third husband, the German Baron Leopold Von Freytag- Loringhoven in November 1913 in New York. There she became known as the Dadaist Baroness Else Von Freytag- Loringhoven.
Poetry
She was given a platform for her poetry in The Little Review, Where starting in 1918. Her work was featured alongside chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses. Jane Heap considered the Baroness "The first American Dada" She was an early Female pioneer of sound poetry. But also made creative use of the Dash, While many of her portmanteau compositions, such as Kissambushed and Phalluspistol, miniature poems. Most her poems remained unpublished until the publications of body Sweats.
Collage, Performance and Assemblages
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