#Gerda Wegener

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Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885-1940)

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Gerda Wegener The Crinoline from serie The Pleasures of Eros 1920

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'Temptation' by Gerda Wegener (1885 - 1940)

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Gerda Wegener - Et elegant par (1920s)

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shotout to women being in love with other women in classic literature and to paintings of women being gay and kissing and touching and staring longingly at one another shotout to lesbian erotic subtext and to fruits that symbolise the vagina shotout to obscene and erotic and tender and soft sapphicism represented in art i love you

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Queen of Hearts (Lili) 1928

Painting by Gerda Wegener

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Portræt af Lili Elbe med grøn fjervifte, 1920 Gerda Wegener

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Lili Elbe paintings by wife, Gerda Wegener

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two women on the balcony, gerda wegener, 1936

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Gerda Wegener (Danish,1885-1940)

Venus et servante dans un palais exotique

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Gerda Wegener, 1925

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Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885-1940)

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Gerda Wegener Portrait of Lili Elbe with a green feather fan 1920

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Gerda Wegener - Portrait of a Woman (1927)

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Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1885–1940) A Johan Sebastian Bach humblement signed, dated and titled 'GERDA. WEGENER/ PARIS 1936/ A Johan Sebastian Bach/ humblement' (lower right) oil on canvas 39 3/8 x 31 5/8 in.

She met fellow artist Lili Elbe – then known as Einar Wegener – at art school. They married in 1904, when Gerda was 18 and Lili was 22. They travelled through Italy and France, eventually settling in Paris in 1912. The couple immersed themselves in the Bohemian lifestyle of the time, befriending many artists, dancers and other figures from the artistic world, often attending carnivals and other public festivals.

During this time Elbe began to wear female clothing, and adopted her female name and persona, becoming Gerda Wegener's favorite model, in paintings of beautiful women with haunting almond-shaped eyes dressed in chic fashions. In 1913, the art world was shocked when they learned that the model who had inspired her depictions of petite femmes fatales was in fact her husband.

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Gerda Wegener, 1904, via x