Portrait Of Lili Elbe. Lili Elbe was, as she set down in letters and notes for an autobiography, a "thoughtless, flighty, very superficially-minded woman", prone to fits of weeping and barely able to speak in front of powerful men. Lili Elbe was born Einar Wegener and spent her entire life trying to choose between the man she was born as and the woman she wanted to become.
Lili Elbe was a transgender Danish painter who was among the first-ever documented recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerda's while wearing a dress.
Lili Elbe. "I love you, cause you're the only person who made sence of me, who made me possible" Lili Elbe from "the danish girl", captured by our lovely Eddie Redmayne I've worked in three hours to get to this. Translated from the German by H. Unfortunately, many gaps in the life story of Lili Elbe existed.