Gerda wegener biography of martin

Eumenis Megalopoulos | Jan 18, 2024

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Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener (née Gottlieb, 15 March 1886 Hammelev - 28 July 1940 Frederiksberg) was a Danish artist and painter who specialized in Art Nouveau and later Art Deco pictures of fashionably dressed women.

Her first husband was Einar Wegener, who, during the couple's marriage, began to dress in women's clothes, identified as a woman and eventually underwent a process of gender reassignment.

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After the corrective surgery, her husband was renamed Lili Elbe in 1930. Danish law did not allow two women to marry, and the marriage was annulled in 1930.

Gerda Gottlieb was born near the town of Grenaa in Denmark. Her parents were Justine (née Østerberg) and Emil Gottlieb. Her father was the vicar of a Lutheran parish.

Female Painters: Gerda Wegener - Girl Museum

Gerda's father was a descendant of Huguenots, and her family was conservative. There were originally three children in the family, but only Gerda lived to adulthood. Gerda pr Ulla Poulsen - Wikipedia NAVIP