Wegener was best known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of gender and love of her time.
Wegener met fellow artist Lili Elbe at the age of 18 years. Lili and Wegener married in 1904. Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter and transgender woman, and among the early recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
Did Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener stay together?
Wegener met fellow artist Lili Elbe at the age of 18 years. Lili and Wegener married in 1904. Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter and transgender woman, and among the early recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
They traveled through Italy and France before choosing to settle in Paris in 1912. This was because they wanted Elbe to live more openly as a woman by posing as Gottlieb’s sister-in-law
Their marriage was annulled in 1930. Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.