Gerda Wegener

By inheritance through the family of a friend of Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, to the present owner.

Paris, Maison du Danemark, Gerda Wegener: portraitiste danoise du Paris des années 20, 2000;

Ishøj, Arken Museum, Gerda Wegener, 1 November 2015 – 16 May 2016, no. 116 (dated 1927).

Gerda Wegener (née Gottlieb) was an artist who found considerable success in the 1920s for her sensuous and art-deco inspired paintings. As a teenager she abandoned her conservative upbringing in rural Denmark in favour of a more a bohemian lifestyle in Copenhagen, where she first met her husband and long-term muse Einar Wegener. Einar later transitioned and was known as Lili Elbe.

Gerda Wegener was recently depicted by Alicia Vikander in the 2015 film The Danish Girl, opposite Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe.