Frederiksberg, 1913: At the peak of his fame, 70-year-old Kristian Zahrtmann paints his masterpiece "Adam in Paradise". In her award-winning novel, Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild lets the Danish master painter appear as a first-person narrator and draws a fascinating literary portrait of the artist as well as a moral picture of his time.
Currently, the title painting "Adam in Paradise" can be seen in the exhibition "Flowers Forever". The reading is in German, the subsequent conversation with the author will be in English.
Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild was born in 1988 and grew up on the island of Bornholm. She debuted in 2016 with a collection of short stories, "Øer" (Islands). She studied literature and sinology at the University of Copenhagen and has spent a long time living in China.
