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For Mo, with love, Ernesto y Amalia ˆˆ Gerda Marie Fredrikke Gottlieb (15 March 1886 28 July 1940) was a Danish fineartist, 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 contr br, br,