The Panum Institute dissection hall and chapel
Name:
The Panum Institute dissection hall and chapel
Town, country:
Copenhagen
Description:
interior, calligraphy, dissection hall, review room and chapel
Completed:
1986
Status:
extant
Done by:
Poul Gernes, Aase Seidler Gernes, Ulrikka Gernes, Georg Jansen
IDname:
PG-Z-2114
Notes:
The dissection hall is decorated with a line of text that runs all the way round as a frieze. This is the prose poem [Desiderata]. The poem reads as a compendium of good advice for a spiritual and modest lifestyle. It is written by American poet Max Ehrmann in the 1920s. But in the 1970s, when it had a wide circulation on posters and cards, it was considered anonymous wisdom, originating from Saint Paul’s Church in Baltimore around 1700. That is how the poem is credited in the decoration at Panum.
