Carl Johan De Geer
Carl Johan De Geer during the Stockholm Culture Festival in Auust 2010
Born13 July 1938 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata

Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born 13 July 1938) is a Swedish artist, writer, musician and friherre (baron) of the De Geer noble family.

De Geer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden.[1] He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He also exposed his grandmother's Nazi sympathies in a film called Mormor, Hitler och jag ("Grandmother, Hitler and I").

Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning Swedish flag with the words KUKEN ('COCK') and "Skända flaggan" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately confiscated by the police.[2] During the late 1960s he was among the contributors of a satirical magazine, Puss, in Stockholm.[3] De Geer has written a number of books and was also a member of the Swedish radical prog band Blå Tåget.[4] He has been married to the artist Marianne Lindberg de Geer since 1987.

He was awarded the Illis quorum by the Swedish government in 2017.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rydell, Malena (2008-09-16). "Med passion för adliga kufar". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  2. ↑ Glover, Nikolas (2015). "A Total Image Deconstructed: The Corporate Analogy and the Legitimacy of Promoting Sweden Abroad in the 1960s". Histories of public diplomacy and nation branding in the Nordic and Baltic countries : representing the periphery. Louis Clerc, Nikolas Glover, Paul Thomas Jordan. Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-30549-6. OCLC 928768776.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Puss 1968–1973". tidskrift.nu (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  4. ↑ Högman, Åke (2008). Följ med in i Carl Johan De Geer (in Swedish). Telegram Förlag. ISBN 9789174237825.
  5. ↑ "Carl Johan De Geer, Livia Fränkel och Britta Marakatt-Labba tilldelas regeringens belöningsmedalj Illis quorum meruere labores". Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
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