Reading with Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild in the Kunsthalle München – Munich

The Danish writer Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild is presenting her novel “Adam in Paradise” in the Kunsthalle Munich – right where the famous painting of the same name by Kristian Zahrtmann is currently hanging.

At the peak of his fame in 1914, the then 70-year-old Danish painter Kristian Zahrtmann created his well-known picture “Adam in Paradise” – a painting full of homoerotic allusions. Almost 100 years later, his compatriot, the writer Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild, who was born in 1988, has the Danish master painter appear as the first-person narrator in her award-winning novel of the same name, drawing a fascinating literary portrait of the artist and a moral picture of his time.

The eponymous painting “Adam in Paradise” can currently be seen in the “Flowers Forever” exhibition in the Kunsthalle. The Danish author is coming there on June 13 and, together with her translator Andreas Donat, will be presenting her novel, which was published in German in 2022 by Albino Verlag. According to the publisher, “a novel about beauty and desire told in poetic and highly sensual language”.

Reading “Adam in Paradise” with author Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild and translator Andreas Donat, Tuesday, June 13, 6.30 p.m., Garden Salon of the Kunsthalle Munich, tickets (7 euros) at the Kunsthallen box office and on-line.

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