Pont Royal in Paris
Einar Wegener, später Lili Elbe (1883 - 1931), later Lili Elbe
Lot-No. 477
Proceeds : 4.400 €
Oil/canvas, 43 x 51 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. Einar Wegener 1922 Paris. - Danish-German landscape painter. E. studied 1902-04 at the Copenhagen Academy and moved to Paris in 1912 with her partner Gerda Wegener and exhibited there in 1922 at the Salon. Born in a male body, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1930 in Dresden, the consequences of which she died of in 1931. Mus.: Vejle, Kolding. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
Einar Wegener, später Lili Elbe: Pont Royal in Paris
Einar Wegener, später Lili Elbe (1883 - 1931), later Lili Elbe
Pont Royal in Paris
Lot-No. 477
Proceeds : 4.400 €
Oil/canvas, 43 x 51 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. Einar Wegener 1922 Paris. - Danish-German landscape painter. E. studied 1902-04 at the Copenhagen Academy and moved to Paris in 1912 with her partner Gerda Wegener and exhibited there in 1922 at the Salon. Born in a male body, she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1930 in Dresden, the consequences of which she died of in 1931. Mus.: Vejle, Kolding. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
