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Lili Elbe

1882 - 1931

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Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery (then called sex reassignment surgery). Elbe was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. After transitioning in 1930, she changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lili Elbe is the 142nd most popular painter (up from 155th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Painter.

Lili elbe is most famous for being the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery. She was born as Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener and transitioned to Lili in 1930.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lili Elbe ranks 142 out of 2,023. Before her are Mark Rothko, Charles Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edward Hopper, and Émile Bernard. After her are Man Ray, Lavinia Fontana, Antonello da Messina, Édouard-Henri Avril, Jean Fouquet, and Jan Steen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Lili Elbe ranks 25. Before her are Melanie Klein, Abd el-Krim, James Franck, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Edward Hopper, and Zoltán Kodály. After her are Getúlio Vargas, Emmerich Kálmán, Umberto Boccioni, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Rodolfo Graziani, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1931, Lili Elbe ranks 11. Before her are Gustave Le Bon, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Princess Royal, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, and Arthur Schnitzler. After her are Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Carl Nielsen, Joseph Joffre, Theo van Doesburg, and Arnold Bennett.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Lili Elbe ranks 43 out of 1,032. Before her are Frederick V of Denmark (1723), Abel, King of Denmark (1218), Rasmus Rask (1787), Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843), Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (1946), and Valdemar II of Denmark (1170). After her are Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770), Frederick III of Denmark (1609), Victor Borge (1909), Valdemar IV of Denmark (1320), Saxo Grammaticus (1150), and Olaf I of Denmark (1050).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Lili Elbe ranks 1. After her are Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Carl Bloch (1834), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Gerda Wegener (1886), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Michael Ancher (1849), Anna Ancher (1859), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Jens Juel (1745), Asger Jorn (1914), and Paul Gustav Fischer (1860).

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