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Two women stand together on a path overlooking a moonlit bay, rendered in a soft palette of reds, blues, and silvery green-gray. Both figures are shown in elegant profile poses, but one woman turns her face toward us with a steady, eye-catching gaze. Her arm wraps around the other woman’s shoulders in a protective, intimate gesture. The other woman looks outward toward the landscape, dreamy and absorbed, holding an apple in one hand. Their dresses, makeup, jewelry, and matching rings are carefully detailed, and the scene feels stylized. It’s poised, theatrical, and tender at once. Behind them, mountains, water, and buildings recede into a luminous atmosphere that gives the image an almost unreal calm. This painting is regarded as one of Danish artist Gerda Wegener’s most moving images of closeness between Gerda and Lili Elbe who married in 1904 when Lili was still publicly known as Einar Wegener. Its emotional power comes from how it balances intimacy with formality. The paired profiles echo Renaissance portrait conventions, while the saturated color, fashion-conscious elegance, and polished surface place the work firmly in Wegener’s modern, Art Deco world. The apple can suggest desire, beauty, choice, or a deliberately staged symbol within a private bond. The work carries a timeless, “elevated” quality that’s less a travel snapshot than an image of shared love, aesthetic devotion, and memory. The moonlit Capri setting matters: Italy appears here as both real place and emotional landscape. Painted in 1922, the work belongs to the period when Gerda and Lili were living within cosmopolitan Parisian artistic circles and shaping the imagery that would make Wegener one of the most distinctive women artists of her era. Wegener was celebrated in Paris for her refined line, glamour, and portraits of women, even as her work could provoke controversy in Denmark. Her paintings of Lili and other women expanded the visual language of femininity, performance, and identity.
“Sur la route d’Anacapri” (On the Way to Anacapri) by Gerda Wegener (Danish) - Oil on canvas / 1922 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst (Ishøj, Denmark) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #GerdaWegener #Wegener #artText #BlueskyArt #DanishArt #arte #ArtDeco #QueerArt #ARKEN #ArkenMuseum
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Tres mujeres (1925) Gerda Wegener, registrada al nacer con el nombre Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb (Hammelev, 15 de marzo de 1885 (quizá 1889) - Frederiksberg, 28 de julio de 1940), fue una pintora, ilustradora e ilustradora erótica danesa. Wegener es conocida por sus ilustraciones de moda y posteriormente por sus pinturas que desafiaban los límites de su época en relación con el género y el amor. Estas obras se clasificaron a veces como erotismo lésbico y muchas se inspiraron en su pareja, la mujer trans Lili Elbe. Wegener hizo en estas obras los estilos del Art Nouveau y, más tarde, del Art Déco.
Tres mujeres (1925) #GerdaWegener 1889-1940), #pintora e #ilustradora #erótica #danesa es conocida por sus ilustraciones de #moda y pinturas que desafiaban los límites de su época en relación con el género y el #amor. Estas obras se clasificaron a veces como #erotismo #lésbico #museoparticular
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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.
“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
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#GerdaWegener (1885-1940), was #bornonthisday
Portrait of #LiliElbe (1882-1931)
1922
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Gerda Wegener (Hammelev, 15 de Março de 1889 — Frederiksberg, 28 de Julho de 1940), pintora, desenhadora e ilustradora dinamarquesa.
Two Mermaids, 1918
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