1. Lil Picard, born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick, was a cabaret actress, artist, journalist and critic, born in Landau, Germany, who took part in several generations of counterculture and avant-garde art in Berlin and in New York City.
12 Facts About Lil Picard
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Lil Picard was born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick October 4,1899 in Landau, Germany.
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Lil Picard was the only child of Jakob, a wine producer and merchant, and Rosalie Benedick.
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Lil Picard spent her childhood and adolescence in Strasbourg, Germany, which is in France.
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In 1918, at the age of 19, Lil met Fritz Picard, an antiquarian bookseller and intellectual with whom she lived in Berlin against her parents' wishes.
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Lil Picard became a cabaret performer, acting in a small part in the film Variete.
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Lil Picard became involved in the Berlin Dadaist movement, associating herself with Dadaists George Grosz, Hugo Ball, and Richard Huelsenbeck and artists Bertolt Brecht, Otto Dix, and Hans Hoffman.
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Lil Picard wrote feuilleton for the Berliner Borsenkurier and worked as a fashion designer and model.
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Lil Picard worked as Art-correspondent for Kunstforum International and Die Welt.
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In New York, Lil Picard began to paint and exhibit works, and worked as a journalist for over three decades, writing for Arts Magazine, East Village Other, and Interview.
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Lil Picard participated in feminist performance art with Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono.
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In New York, Lil Picard dated Alfred Jensen and Ad Reinhardt.