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She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. [3] After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, [4] and later adopted the surname Elbe. She was the first known recipient of a uterus transplant in an attempt to achieve pregnancy, but died due to the subsequent complications. [5] [6] [7] [8]
The Danish Girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same title by David Ebershoff, and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. [5]
The Danish Girl is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by the Viking Press in the United States and Allen & Unwin in Australia.. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Einar Mogens Wegener (1882–1931), birth name of transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe Emmy Wegener (1901–1973), Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer Frederico or Federico Wegener, aliases of Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Nazi SS officer known as the "Butcher of Riga"
December 28 – Lili Elbe, born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener, Danish-born artist (died 1931) Undated – Todor Švrakić , Serbian painter (died 1931 ) Deaths
She was born Einar Wegener in 1882 and became a landscape painter. It wasn't until Wegener posed for a painting by her wife and fellow artist, Gerda Gottlieb, that she realized she was Lili Elbe.
March 5 – Danish painter Einar Wegener begins to undergo sexual reassignment surgery in Germany and takes the name Lili Elbe.; July 10 – Mental Treatment Act 1930 in the United Kingdom provides for free voluntary treatment for psychiatric conditions and for psychiatric outpatient clinics, replaces the term "asylum" with "mental hospital" and reorganises the Board of Control for Lunacy and ...
Introduction to Man into woman: An authentic record of a change of sex; The true story of the miraculous transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener by Lili Elbe and Niels Hoyer, translated from the German by H. J. Stenningworth. New York: Dutton; London, Jarrold Publishers, 1933.