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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 sex reassignment surgery (gender-affirming surgery).
Jun 27, 2024 · Lili Elbe (born December 28, 1882, Vejle, Denmark—died September 13, 1931, Dresden, Germany) was a Danish painter who was assigned male at birth, experienced what is now called gender dysphoria, and underwent the world’s first documented 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?
May 14, 2023 · Published May 14, 2023. Updated June 12, 2023. A successful painter who lived in Paris, Einar Wegener would undergo groundbreaking gender-affirming surgeries and live as Lili Elbe before dying in 1931. Einar Wegener didn’t know how unhappy he was in his own skin until he met Lili Elbe.
Nov 24, 2015 · Did Lili Elbe's sex change operations really lead to her death? Yes. The true story behind The Danish Girl confirms that Einar Wegener's transformation into Lili Elbe ultimately led to her death.
Nov 21, 2020 · Lili Elbe (December 28, 1882– September 13, 1931) was a pioneering transgender woman. She experienced what is now known as gender dysphoria and was one of the first individuals known to receive sex reassignment surgery.
Jul 23, 2024 · Lili Elbe – born Einar Wegener – was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century and the first known transgender woman in arts. She was married to Gerda Wegener, a successful Art Deco illustrator and painter known for her slightly erotic, yet Secessionist style.
Sep 18, 2015 · Lili Elbe: the transgender artist behind The Danish Girl. One of the first in the world to undergo pioneering surgery, Lili was a 20th-century transgender icon. By The Week Staff....
Lili Elbe was a Danish artist and transgender woman, one of the first people to receive sex reassignment surgery. Born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener on December 28, 1882 in Vejle, Denmark, Elbe studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she met her future wife, Gerda Gottlieb.
About. Gerda Wegener, Queen of Hearts (Lili), 1928. The Lili Elbe Digital Archive is a companion to Man into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition (Bloomsbury 2020), a thoroughly annotated version of the American first edition with an extensive introduction and six new essays on this narrative.
