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- It tells the story of the 1930s Danish artist Einar Wegener, played by Eddie Redmayne, who became one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, having decided to live life as a woman called Lili Elbe. The film also features Wegener's wife Gerda, played by Alicia Vikander.
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Nov 24, 2015 · According to The Danish Girl true story, Einar Wegener met fellow artist Gerda Gottlieb when they both were attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. They dated for a few years and married in 1904 when Einar was 22 and Gerda was 19.
In the mid-1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener asks her spouse, Einar Wegener, a popular landscape artist and closeted trans woman, to stand in for a female model, who is late arriving at their flat to pose for a painting Gerda is working on.
Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener (née Gottlieb; 15 March 1886 – 28 July 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter. Wegener is known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of her time concerning gender and love.
Alicia Vikander discusses the limited information available on the real Gerda Wegener and what she learned about her before filming began.
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Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery (then called sex reassignment surgery).
Nov 18, 2023 · Lili Elbe, a Danish-born transgender woman, famously transitioned in the early twentieth century. What did her spouse, Gerda Wegener, think about it?
Feb 28, 2016 · He was married to a woman whose strength and talent matched, or perhaps even surpassed, his own: Gerda Wegener, a successful Art Deco illustrator who produced portraits of fashionable women for...
