Gustaf Munch-Petersen

Biography:

Gustaf Munch-Petersen was a Danish writer and painter. He wrote surreal prose-poems considered groundbreaking in his time which have inspired later writers. Gustaf Munch-Petersen grew up in a rich and respectable home; he was son of Valfrid Palmgren a Swedish born Associate Professor in Swedish at Copenhagen University and Jon Julius Munch-Petersen Professor in Engineering Research at the Polytechnic School.