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Gerda Marie Frederike Wegener @ Wikipedia
Hardly any other Art Nouveau artist has aroused so much attention not only through her art but above all through her lifestyle as the Danish painter and illustrator Gerda Marie Frederike Wegener. Born in Northern Schleswig in 1886, she moved to Copenhagen at the art academy when she was young. There she married the artist Einar Wegener in 1904, who increasingly recognized his feminine identity. He later called himself Lili Elbe and underwent one of the first ever human sex-mutilation operations. Gerda Wegener's unrestricted tolerance and her open dealing with her own lesbian tendencies make her a pioneer of self-confident female sexuality.
Gerda Wegener's art is an expression of her dazzling life. Their often erotic works reflect the desire for female, even lesbian sexuality and play with the sexes. Lili Elbe often serves her as a model, as well as on the oil painting of the same name. In 1912, the dazzling couple moves to Paris, where Gerda works as a portrait painter and as an illustrator for various magazines. At the Paris World Fair in 1925, she exhibits her works and wins two gold medals.
Not least because of the feature film "the danish girl" from 2015, which traces the life story of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the works of the artist are of great relevance.
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