The Danish Girl Artworks

mondixx (x): Eddie Redmayne is a beautiful actor. cant wait to watch it again!❤️ #thedanishgirl

Beautiful painting about Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe in 'The Danish Girl'

Universal Pictures promo animations ahead cinema releases

Eddie Redmayne takes Lili Elbe’s story from the page to the screen.

Così delicata e raffinata da sembrare uscita da un dipinto. Lili non è come tutte le altre, scoprite la sua storia dal 18 Febbraio al cinema. #TheDanishGirlIT
Szerző: The Danish Girl, 2015. december 21.

In Cinenas New Year's day - UK (credit: universalpicturesuk.tumblr.com)

Attraverso l'arte si può trovare se stessi. Da un tratto delicato, può prendere vita la nostra parte più vera. Fatevi coinvolgere dalla commovente storia di Lili e Gerda, The Danish Girl uscirà nelle sale il 18 Febbraio. #TheDanishGirlIT
Szerző: The Danish Girl, 2015. december 30.

From January 21st in Australia - video on Instagram

Wonderful digital artwork from bramvanhaeren (x)

Art from the movie


166 paintings were crafted from scratch by the art team in order to bring Gerda's work to life.(x)


From The Danish Girl - Art Working Title Board on Pinterest (x)
Art - Set Design - Costume Design - Locations
Many behind the scenes pictures from Working Title

Vogue: The Real Story Behind the Paintings in The Danish Girl

...While Einar’s bare landscapes were a hit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Gerda’s feminine portraits were never quite accepted by the Danish art community. After Einar started transitioning into Lili, she became Gerda’s muse. Her Art Nouveau portraits of Lili became her breakthrough and earned her fame and recognition as an artist in Paris. “It was alluring to people to see someone as spectacularly beautiful as Lili and as different,” Stewart explained of the paintings’ success. Stewart teamed up with British artist Susannah Brough and they eventually settled on roughly 70 artworks to re-create for the film. “We laid them all out and went through the script with Tom and writer Lucinda [Coxon] and plotted which ones would hit each scene,” she said. “We only had two months to re-create all of them. By the end we were all in that painting room! The film’s paintings weren’t exact replicas of Gerda’s work, however. “We had to adapt them slightly because they didn’t look like Eddie,” Stewart said. The original portrait of ballerina Ulla Poulsen, the one that changed Lili’s life forever, was also altered to resemble actress Amber Heard’s face. In addition to the release of The Danish Girl, this month, Denmark’s Arken Museum of Modern Art will be displaying the largest exhibition of Gerda’s work so far, a development that delighted Stewart. “I think she would have been so thrilled that finally she was taken seriously by the Danish.”...

Full article here (photos below: courtesy of Focus Features)

"I want to be a woman, not a painter,” says Einar Wegener to his artist wife, Gerda, who wryly reminds him 

that some have succeeded at being both....

“What you draw, I become,” Lili says to Gerda. “You made me beautiful, and now you make me stronger.”

The film has sparked renewed interest in not only Lili, but also Gerda Wegerner’s art and life. She was similarly
self-styled, independent and determined, and her work was often unapologetically erotic. Her paintings, which combined the influence of Cubism and other avant-garde styles with traditionally “feminine” subjects such as
women in gardens or at their toilettes, are the subject of a major exhibition at the Arken Museum in Copenhagen,
on view through 16 May 2016. (x)

‘The Danish Girl’ on display – In a small Greenwich gallery lies the art that fuels the film

Anyone who can venture to this New York City suburb can see Gerda Wegener’s original art of Lili.(x)

Video: Lili Elbe, Einar & Gerda Wegener (The Danish Girl)
Copies of photos depicting Lili Elbe, Einar & Gerda Wegener Paintings of Einar & Gerda Wegener (fanmade)

Updated on 9 Jan. 2016, 17:50

New TDG interviews with Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Tom Hooper

FOX12 Oregon video: Eddie Redmayne talks to Steph about his recent role in 'The Danish Girl'

ABC7 video: Hollywood Wrap: Eddie Redmayne calls 'Danish Girl' unique love story 

"The love story at the center of this film was for me, and I'm incredibly biased, but it felt like one of the great love stories of the 20th century in some ways, and I couldn't believe I didn't know about Lili," Redmayne said. 

Lili is who Redmayne's character becomes, trying to navigate what it means to be transgendered at a time when there was no vocabulary for it. 

Redmayne did as much research as he could on this real-life person and to further understand Lili, he met with several trans women to hear their stories. 

"It's been almost a hundred years since their story, and yet some of the things that Lili had to deal with - the discrimination, the violence - speaking to trans women now, it's staggering how little progress there's been in many ways," he said. 

Director Tom Hooper handed Redmayne "The Danish Girl" script four years ago when they were making "Les Miserables." Redmayne knew, instinctively, he needed to take on the role. 

"I was moved unlike anything I've ever read. It was a deeply unique love story and about the fact that love is not defined by gender or by bodies - but it's really souls," Redmayne said. 

For his work in "The Danish Girl," Redmayne is back in the awards arena, nominated for several acting honors. 

"This film has taken 15 years to get made and if any sort of buzz or that sort of thing encourages people to go see it, 

then that's a wonderful thing," he said.

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Eddie Redmayne with George Pennacchio (x)

ABC News: Jason Nathanson (x)

Alicia Vikander dishes on working with Eddie Redmayne

Interview at AOL HQ in NYC for AOL BUILD.
Video: Alicia Vikander on how 'The Danish Girl' came to be

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npr: Eddie Redmayne: Reading 'Danish Girl' Script Was Like Getting 'Sucker-Punched'

Ari Shapiro's audio interview with Eddie about 'The Danish Girl' on Christmas Eve with transcript 

(downloadable mp3)

From Charlie Rose (x)

"There's been decades of prejudice against trans people and trans stories. So, maybe there's no surprise that the story of these two early pioneers, and their love, has been kind of pushed to the sidelines and forgotten. So, at the very least, I wanted the film to redirect attention to this incredible couple who went through this transition -- you know, at a time when the word “transgender” did not exist, when there was no roadmap to transition." Tom Hooper, director of The King's Speech (Film), discusses his latest film The Danish Girl, which tells the story of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, and her partner Gerda Wegener.

The Danish Girl earned $1.5M in 400+ U.S. theaters this weekend 

TAKE A BOW: The Danish Girl holds its own during first weekend of “everywhere” distribution at 400+ U.S. theaters. It earned $1.5 million, for a total of $3.2 million since opening in NY and LA. (x)

'The Danish Girl' advert on a bus in London (x)

Great thing about LA is the Arclight has actual movie costumes you can see close up.

Wow! From the Danish girl! (x)

Love Story Featurette - The Danish Girl video, screencaptures and gifs

BBC Radio2: Alicia Vikander chats about 'The Danosh Girl' with Steve Wright

She talks about Eddie Redmayne as well

A few more gifs on tumblr

People: How Eddie Redmayne Became The Danish Girl: The Surprising Things He Learned from the Transgender Community

"When I was making Jupiter Ascending with Lana Wachowski, I mentioned Lili and Gerda's (Elbe's wife, played by Alicia Vikander) story to her, and she spoke so passionately about Gerda's art and [Lili's autobiography] Man Into Woman, which was published after her death."
Eddie says the advice he received from members of the transgender community ranged from practical to inspirational.
"There were surface things some of the women would say," he recalls. "April Ashley, an elder trans woman in England said, when I was talking to her about my voice, 'Don't go up in pitch. Find the femininity in your own voice.'"
One of the keys to understanding Elbe, he says, was "this idea that Lili was born Lili. Society and her notion of what was right in that period meant she had a forced masculinity." When Elbe first began to transition, "there was almost an affectation to her femininity. Some of the trans women I spoke to talked about this phase of hyper-feminization, when you're wearing too much makeup or clothes that are too feminine." ...
(For much more from Redmayne, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.)

New York Times: The Liberation of Lili in ‘The Danish Girl’
...The character’s evolution — or liberation, as Mr. Delgado described it — is a struggle as Mr. Redmayne swings like a pendulum between Einar and Lili, masculine and feminine, suits and dresses.
Finding the right balance for each scene was a group effort involving Mr. Delgado; the makeup and hair designer Jan Sewell; Tom Hooper, the director; and Mr. Redmayne, all of whom had worked together previously on “Les Misérables.”
Unofficial fittings began almost a year before “The Danish Girl” was announced to the public. “It was during one of those first camera tests that we found Lili; we knew it was going to work,” Ms. Sewell said....Read more

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ELLE: WAKING UP NEXT TO EDDIE REDMAYNE DEFINITELY DOESN'T SUCK
My Wife videoclip (the first scene filmed the morning after BAFTA's)

You can download the script and listen to some tracks of the soundtrack on focusguilds2015.com

The pictures without source link are my captures and gifs from the viseo