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A Johan Sebastian Bach humblement, (1936)
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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“Lili with a Feather Fan” by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1920 - ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #GerdaWegener #Wegener #WomanArtist #WomensArt #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #DanishArt #ArtDeco #ArtNouveau #ARKENMuseumofContemporaryArt #ARKEN #WomensArt
Danish artist Gerda Wegener (born Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb) painted her spouse and muse, Lili Elbe, at a pivotal moment in both their lives: Paris in 1920, where the couple had resettled after Copenhagen critics dismissed Wegener’s glamorous portraits as too risqué. In Paris, however, her Art Nouveau-to-Art Deco line, fashion-forward sensibility, and witty eroticism found an eager audience in magazines and salons. This portrait distills the couple’s shared project: picturing Lili not as a “costume,” but as a woman whose beauty, taste, and social ease are givens. Lili, with light peach skin and softly curled blonde hair swept into a high chignon, turns three-quarters right and looks down with almost closed, kohl-lined eyes; rouge warms her cheeks and her lips rose-lacquered. A short pearl necklace rims a scalloped neckline on a fitted, pale-pink dress fastened by a row of tiny back buttons while elbow-length gloves hug her forearms. In her left hand, she holds the handle of a luxuriant large emerald-green feather fan which arcs behind her shoulder like a wing. The background is a dense tapestry of stylized leaves, birds, and flowers in coral, salmon, moss, and umber. The paint is buttery and animated, textures shifting from gleaming satin to velvety feathers; the overall mood is poised, self-possessed, and decidedly elegant. Wegener’s Paris pictures of chorus girls, models, and friends offered a distinctly female gaze attentive to women’s agency, pleasure, and the craft of self-fashioning. Lili (born Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener), who would later undergo gender-affirming surgeries in 1930 and tragically die in 1931, was central to that vision as painting became a means for the couple to make public a private truth. In “Lili with a Feather Fan,” paint, costume, and pose work together as a quiet manifesto: beauty as knowledge, elegance as resolve, and an act of love and recognition as artist and sitter look at one another.
September 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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" The Ballerina Ulla Poulsen in the Ballet Chopiniana ".
February 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Two Sirens - Gerda Wegener
two mermaids. One of them has a buttcrack, unusual for a mermaid. It's discreetly covered with a starfish as a figleaf
February 29, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Gerda Wegener.

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April 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Eva Heramb (1934)
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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"Still Life with Flowers" (1922)
June 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Gerda Wegener - Erotic Illustration For Les Delassements d'Eros ca 1925

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March 1, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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On the Banks of the Loire, (1926)
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Sur la route d’Anacapri (On the Way to Anacapri) (1922)
July 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Gerda Wegener, “Three Graces”

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August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Portrait of #LiliElbe (1882-1931)
1922
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March 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Les Deux Amis.
May 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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La Vie Parisien
February 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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C’est La Barbe.
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Born today... Gerda Wegener, March 15, 1886, Haderslev Municipality, Denmark

image: Plate from Les Délassements d'Eros published in 1925

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March 15, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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" Air de Capri ", (1923)
March 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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🎨Mulleres…bon día!
©️ Gerda Wegener
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April 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Gerda Wegener, 1916.

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June 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Gerda Wegener.

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March 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Gerda Wegener, 1914.

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August 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Two Women in a Window (1920)
May 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Karnevallet, (1925)
February 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Cinderella
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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“Dame de coeur”
January 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM