Articles
14 Results2024
Lili Elbe 鈥� born Einar Wegener 鈥� was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century and the first known transgender woman in arts.
Painting a Woman: The Story of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener Through Their Art
Daily Art Magazine 27/03/2024The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born Einar Wegener and better known as Lili Elbe, and her spouse, the Art Deco portrait artist Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), born Gerda Gottlieb.
2023
Trans Quilombismo and the Catastrophe of Critical Writing Luce Delire on "O Quilombismo" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Texte Zur Kunst 29/11/2023Institutions are not easy to change, but it鈥檚 worth trying.
Emancipation Through Collectivity and Joy: 鈥極 Quilombismo鈥� at HKW
Berlin Art Link Magazine 27/06/2023A video installation by artist Hajra Waheed brings our awareness to the coiled and winding shape of the spiral, one of the most widespread forms found in nature.
Review: A Striking Danish Art Show at the Getty Unpacks What It Means to Be a Nation in Turmoil
Los Angeles Times 14/06/2023Almost five years ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired a very beautiful, very strange painting by a 19th century Danish artist not widely known outside northern Europe.
Exhibition at Museum Ludwig Cologne Examines the Depiction of Plants in the Visual Arts
ArtDaily 01/01/2023What do plants mean to human beings? The exhibition Green Modernism: The New View of Plants takes us back to the early twentieth century and examines the depiction of plants in the visual arts...
2022
Here She Comes: 'Problematic' Femme Fatale Trope Gets Feminist Reappraisal in Hamburg Exhibition
The Art Newspaper 09/12/2022Artists from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Nan Goldin are brought together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle to re-examine the stereotype鈥檚 origins and new takes
Lili Elbe 鈥� born Einar Wegener 鈥� was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century and the first known transgender woman in arts.
What do plants mean to human beings? The exhibition Green Modernism: The New View of Plants takes us back to the early twentieth century and examines the depiction of plants in the visual arts and how they were viewed in botany and society in general.
Gerda Wegener (1886-1940) may be familiar to viewers from the 2015 bio-pic film, The Danish Girl, which is (quite) loosely inspired by the lives of Gerda Wegener and her partner (and fellow Danish painter), Lili Elbe (1882 鈥� 1931).
Jazz-age Paris, the era of Ernest Hemingway鈥檚 鈥渕oveable feast,鈥� burns bright in the romantic imaginary as a time of liberty and libertinism.
Painting of One of the First Transgender Women to Receive Sex Reassignment Surgery Achieves Auction Record for Danish Painter
The Art Newspaper 08/03/2022Gerda Wegener鈥檚 1924 painting of her partner Lili Elbe shows the subject as a languid odalisque
2021
Lili Elbe 鈥� born Einar Wegener 鈥� was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century who later in life became a transgender woman.
2020
Labels, like clothes, feel most comfortable when we choose them ourselves.