Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"Girl and Pug in an Automobile," Gerda Wegener, 1927.</p><p>Wegener (1885-1940) is someone I've featured before, but she's always worth featuring. I love this Art Deco painting, which on the surface is mild and inocuous...a woman and her dog in a car, on what seems to be an early spring day. What could be more everyday?</p><p>All is not what it appears. The woman is Lili Ilse Elvenes, aka Lili Elbe, Wegener's partner, who was trans and one of the earliest known successful recipients of gender-affirming surgery, in 1930. However, for a couple of decades Wegener had been painting haunting portraits of a sexy, almond-eyed femme fatale...and it was a bit of scandal when it emerged in 1913 that this gorgeous woman was assigned male at birth.</p><p>Elbe sadly passed away in 1931, from complications of an attempt to transplant a uterus into her body. Wegener remarried briefly, and her painting style fell out of fashion. She died poor and half-forgotten, but her work has been rediscovered and acclaimed.</p><p>From a private collection.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DanishArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DanishArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GerdaWegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerdaWegener</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LiliElbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiliElbe</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TransHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PortraitMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortraitMonday</span></a></p>
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alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> The relaxation of Eros<br /><a href="https://beige.party/tags/GerdaWegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GerdaWegener</span></a> 1925</p>
Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"Lili," Gerda Wegener, 1922.</p><p>Wegener (1886-1940) has been featured before; she was a Danish painter and illustrator who challenged contemporary ideas of love and gender.</p><p>Lili Elbe (1882-1931), the subject of this portrait, was a trans woman and Wegener's partner. This is one of a series of fairly eroticized Art Deco portraits of Elbe that Wegener did, challenging viewer's ideas of what is feminine and what is masculine. Elbe would successfully undergo gender-affirmation surgery in 1929, but would die of complications from an attempted uterus transplant.</p><p>Happy Pride Month!</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomenArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenArtists</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GerdaWegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerdaWegener</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LiliElbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiliElbe</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TransPride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransPride</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArtists</span></a></p>
Christopher Coenen 🎶💃✊🏻🕺🎨<p>Gerda Wegener: portrait of Lili Elbe (circa 1928)</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TDOV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDOV</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TDOV2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDOV2024</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LiliElbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiliElbe</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/GerdaWegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerdaWegener</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/transdayofvisibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transdayofvisibility</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/transIsBeautiful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transIsBeautiful</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/transrightsarehumanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transrightsarehumanrights</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Danish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Danish</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> </p><p>International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elb</span><span class="invisible">e</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Wegener" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_We</span><span class="invisible">gener</span></a></p>
Murat_add<p>Gerda Wegener💫<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gerdawegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gerdawegener</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/illustrator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustrator</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a></p>
Bevan Thomas<p>"Tentazione" by Gerda Wegener<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FaustianFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FaustianFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FairyFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairyFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/pan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/satyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satyr</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fashion</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GerdaWegener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerdaWegener</span></a></p>
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