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Authors: Mina Loy

APPENDIX B
CHRONOLOGY OF MINA LOY

1882	b. December 27 as “Mina Gertrude Lowy,” London, England.
1899	Studies art with Angelo Jank at Kunstlerrinen Verein, Munich.
1901	Studies with Augustus John in London.
1903	Moves to Paris; marries Stephen Haweis.
1905	Enters Gertrude Stein’s circle of artists and writers.
1906	Elected member of Salon d’Automne; moves to Florence.
1907	Joella Synara Haweis is born.
1909	Giles (John Giles Stephen Musgrove) Haweis is born.
1913	Meets F. T. Marinetti and other Futurist artists and writers; separates from Haweis.
1914	First poems published (Camera Work).
1916	Sails for New York City, where she enters Walter Conrad Arensberg’s circle of artists and writers; meets Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Arthur Cravan, etc.
1918	Travels to Mexico; marries Cravan in Mexico City. She travels to Europe via Buenos Aires; he fails to meet her as planned; he is never seen again.
1919	London; Lausanne; Florence Fabi (Jemima Fabienne) Cravan is born.
1920	Returns to New York; deepens her ties with American avant-garde writers and artists.
1921	Paris, Florence.
1922	Florence, Vienna, Potsdam, Berlin.
1923	Settles in Paris; first book of poems published (Lunar Baedecker [sic], Contact Pub. Co.).
1925	Narrative poem, Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, completed.
1927	Gives talk on Stein and reads her own poems at Natalie Barney’s salon.
1931	Becomes Paris representative for her son-in-law’s (Julien Levy’s) New York gallery.
1933	Meets Richard Oelze.
1936	Moves to New York; lives in the Bowery; friendship with Joseph Cornell; begins revising prose works begun in Paris, including Insel, presumably.
1946	Becomes American citizen.
1949	Moves to heart of Bowery; less and less contact with old friends living in New York.
1953	Lives near her daughters in Aspen, Colorado.
1959	Exhibition of her work, Bodley Gallery, New York.
1966	Dies, September 25, in Aspen.

(Adapted from
The Last Lunar Baedeker
, ed. Roger L. Conover [Highlands, N.C.: Jargon Society, 1982].)

APPENDIX C
CHRONOLOGY OF RICHARD OELZE

1900	b. June 29, Magdeburg.
1921–25	Studies at Bauhaus, Weimar; travels to Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Köln, Düsseldorf.
1926–29	Spends time in Dresden; more than a month-long visit at Dessau Bauhaus; travels to Essen.
1929–30	Ascona.
1930–32	Berlin; more than a month traveling in the Gardasee.
1932	Late fall: Travels to Mainz and Frankfurt/Main.
1933	March 31: Takes train across the border to France; settles in Paris; loose contact with Breton, Dali, Eluard, Ernst; October: exhibits paintings in Salon des Indépendents.
1936	October 1: Leaves Paris for Switzerland.
1936–37	Ascona.
1937–38	Positano.
1938	Returns to Germany: Essen, Mulheim/Ruhr, Magdeburg, Berlin.
1939	Early in the year: settles in Worpswede.
1940	Conscription and military service.
1945	American imprisonment and release.
1945–62	Worpswede.
1951	Marries Hedwig Rohde.
1953	Travels to Paris.
1962	Moves to Porteholz bei Hameln.
1964	Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Preis der Stadt Hagen; other prizes.
1965	Nomination as full member to Academy of Art, Berlin.
1980	Dies, May 27, in Porteholz.

(Adapted from
Richard Oelze 1900–1980: Gemalde und Zeichnungen
, hrsg. Wieland Schmied [Berlin: Akademie der Künste und Autoren, 1987], p. 185.)

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