Johann moritz rugendas biography of michael jordan

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When Chilean writer Carlos Franz read a biography of Johann Moritz Rugendas more than 20 years ago, he was captivated by the story of this German artist Rugendas.

A 19th-century German painter, his clandestine love of a Chilean aristocrat and his dispute with Charles Darwin marks the plot of the award-winning novel that Chilean Carlos Franz is presenting in Germany.

When Chilean writer Carlos Franz read a biography of Johann Moritz Rugendas more than 20 years ago, he was captivated by the story of this German artist who portrayed the landscape and human types of Latin America, and his clandestine love of a married woman, 19th-century Chilean aristocrat.

Also inspired by the letters of the beloved, which the artist kept all his life and was published a century later, Franz investigated in-depth Rugendas and his passage through Chile, where he is considered almost a national artist.

"The letters sho