Danish Girl Lili Elbe

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Danish Girl Lili Elbe: Gerda Wegener

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Gerda Wegener Oil Painting - Danish Girl Lili Elbe

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Work Overview: Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), was a Danish transgender woman and one of the first identifiable[1] recipients of sex reassignment surgery.[2] Elbe was born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener and was a successful painter under that name. During this time she also presented as Lili (sometimes spelled Lily) and was publicly introduced as her sister. After successfully transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes[4] and stopped painting altogether. The name Lili Elbe was given to her by Copenhagen journalist Louise Lassen.[5] She died from complications involving a uterus transplant.[6][7][8] Her autobiography, Man into Woman, was posthumously published in 1933.

Elbe met Gerda Gottlieb while they were students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen,[18] and they married in 1904, when Gottlieb was 19 and Elbe was 22.[10] They worked as illustrators, with Elbe specializing in landscape paintings, while Gottlieb illustrated books and fashion magazines. They traveled through Italy and France, eventually settling in Paris in 1912, where Elbe could live openly as a woman, and Gottlieb identified as lesbian.[10] Elbe received the Neuhausens prize in 1907 and exhibited at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (the Artists Fall Exhibition), at the Vejle Art Museum, and in the Saloon and Salon d'Automme in Paris. She is represented at Vejle Art Museum in Denmark.

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