Gerda Wegener The Danish girls wife

For Mo, with love, Ernesto y Amalia ✿ˆ◡ˆ♥ Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb (15 March 1886 – 28 July 1940) was a Danish fine-artist, illustrator and painter best known for erotica. Her artwork largely contains images of fashionable women in the style of art nouveau and later art deco. Her big break as an artist came just after graduating from the Academy in 1907 and 1908 when she won a drawing contest put on by the Politiken newspaper. She then was the center of a controversy called the Peasant Painter Dispute after one of her works, a portrait of Ellen von Kohl, was rejected for exhibitions due to the style of the piece. She was supported by Henze and the Slot – Möller couple, and was charged by the Funen Group people with plagiarizing the British Pre-raphaelite style She was known for her illustrations created for advertisements and was also a sought-after portrait painter. She met fellow artist Einar Weg