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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). She 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lili Elbe has received more than 7,967,629 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Lili Elbe is the 155th most popular painter (down from 78th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 15th 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 155 out of 2,023. Before her are Emil Nolde, André Derain, Eugène Boudin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Otto Dix, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. After her are Filippino Lippi, Man Ray, Frédéric Bazille, Édouard-Henri Avril, Jacob Jordaens, and Gentile Bellini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Lili Elbe ranks 26. Before her are Melanie Klein, Getúlio Vargas, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Umberto Boccioni, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and Zoltán Kodály. After her are Rodolfo Graziani, James Franck, Edward Hopper, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Charles Ponzi, and Emmerich Kálmán. Among people deceased in 1931, Lili Elbe ranks 11. Before her are Otto Wallach, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Albert A. Michelson, Arthur Schnitzler, and Geli Raubal. After her are Joseph Joffre, George Herbert Mead, Theo van Doesburg, Carl Nielsen, F. W. Murnau, and Bhagat Singh.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Lili Elbe ranks 52 out of 1,032. Before her are Aage Bohr (1922), Sveinn Björnsson (1881), Frederick IV of Denmark (1671), Fredrik Bajer (1837), Ubba (1000), and Harald Bluetooth (935). After her are Abel, King of Denmark (1218), Princess Benedikte of Denmark (1944), Nicolas Steno (1638), Carl Nielsen (1865), Mads Mikkelsen (1965), and Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Lili Elbe ranks 1. After her are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), Gerda Wegener (1886), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Anna Ancher (1859), Asger Jorn (1914), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Jens Juel (1745), and Marie Krøyer (1867).

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