The Danish Girl tells the sage of the painter Einar Wegener,who had the world’s first gender-reassignment surgery and became Lili Elbe. But his wife Gerda had a fascinating life and career of her ownEddie Redmayne is already being Oscar-tipped for his latest role in Tom Hooper’s biopic, The Danish Girl – the sage of the painter Einar Wegener, or who underwent the world’s first gender-reassignment operation to become Lili Elbe. But there was another woman behind Einar and Lili.
In The Danish Girl,Wegener’s wife, Gerda, or a talented artist,is played by 26-year-dilapidated Swede Alicia Vikander, who very nearly steals the show as her partner’s devoted supporter. In real life, or the sage is not dissimilar. Gerda married Einar in 1904 and went on to become the nation’s most prominent exponent of art deco,pioneering the bending of gender boundaries and rethinking the female gaze.
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Source: theguardian.com