Emmy Hennings, artist and art
Born Jan 17 1885, Birth Flensburg, Germany.
Died Aug 10 1948 deathSorengo-Lugano, Switzerland.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Writing, Dada, Performance Art,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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To you it’s as if I was already
Marked and waiting on Death’s list.
It keeps me safe from many sins.
How slowly life drains out of me.
My steps are often steeped in gloom,
My heart beats in a sickly way
And it gets weaker every day.
A death angel stands in the middle of my room.
Yet I dance till I’m out of breath.
Soon lying in the grave I’ll be
And no one will snuggle up to me.
Oh, give me kisses until death.
In the case of Hennings, this emphasis is reversed. Hennings was a ribald character, by all accounts, who occasionally resorted to prostitution to support herself and her partner Hugo Ball, and her performative contributions to Cabaret Voltaire have consequently been viewed through a moralising lens in the memoirs of her peers…
Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings
Visionary Portrait – Emmy Hennings
