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Lili Elbe was born male in 1882 in Denmark as Einar Wegener. In 1904 he married Gerda Gottlieb, a fellow painter. During the 1920s Lili Elbe was Einar’s female alter ego but between 1929 and 1930 after several – previously untried – surgical operations to reconfigure his genital organs, Einar became Lili.
Lili Elbe died during a further operation in Stockholm in 1931.
Lili Elbe was born male in 1882 in Denmark as Einar Wegener. In 1904 he married Gerda Gottlieb, a fellow painter. During the 1920s Lili Elbe was Einar’s female alter ego but between 1929 and 1930 after several – previously untried – surgical operations to reconfigure his genital organs, Einar became Lili.
Lili Elbe died during a further operation in Stockholm in 1931.
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She was the subject of Fra mand til kvinde written by herself and published in Danish soon after under the byline of her friend and editor, Niels Hoyer, in 1931, which was translated into German and thence into English as Man into Woman (London, 1933).
In 1999 Lili Elbe's story was fictionalised in David Ebershoff's The Danish Girl. This book will form the basis of a new film with Nicole Kidman.
She was the subject of Fra mand til kvinde written by herself and published in Danish soon after under the byline of her friend and editor, Niels Hoyer, in 1931, which was translated into German and thence into English as Man into Woman (London, 1933).
In 1999 Lili Elbe's story was fictionalised in David Ebershoff's The Danish Girl. This book will form the basis of a new film with Nicole Kidman.
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An upcoming film called the Danish Girl, based on David Ebeshoff's fictionalized account of the relationship of Elbe (Nicole Kidman) and wife Gerda, who will be played by Oscar winner Charlize Theron.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήGerda was a successful artist and illustrator in her own right, and in addition to painting beautiful pictures of women, painted some highly erotic ones as well. You may wish to wait until you get home to check them out courtesy of the Dorothy Surrender's blog if you're curious since these images are a bit steamy for work.
But for us transpeeps, Lili is considered the pioneer. She was born Einar Wegener in 1886 and met Gerda Gottlieb while they were students in a Copenhagen art school.
They settled in Paris in 1912 and worked as illustrators, with Einar focusing on painting landscapes while Gerda finding commercial success focusing on books and fashion magazines. Lili's body type also allowed her to pass quite easily as a woman, which she did from 1910 onwards.
When one of Gerda's models no showed, she asked Lili to fill in to great success. Gerda then continued to use Lili in a series of paintings as her model. Sometimes she was dressed in high fashion clothes, other times in the nude.
Beginning in 1930, after Lili's examination by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, she underwent an experimental series of operations in Berlin to finish her transformation to woman. She had an ovarian transplant performed in the second surgery, but after she experienced severe abdominal pain, had emergency surgery to remove them. She died in 1931 as a result of complications from that failed transplant and is buried in Dresden, Germany.