Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born 13 July 1938) is a

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artist, writer, musician and '' friherre'' (baron) of the

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noble family. De Geer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a castle in

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, in southern

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. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a

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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 ("Grandmother, Hitler and I"). Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning

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with the words ('COCK') and "" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately confiscated by the police. During the late 1960s he was among the contributors of a satirical magazine, '' Puss'', in Stockholm. De Geer has written a number of books and was also a member of the Swedish radical prog band '' Blå Tåget''. 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.

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Marianne Lindberg de Geer's website
* Sinziana Ravini: ''Marianne Lindberg De Geer och kritiken'' (Dunkers kulturhus, 2010) {{DEFAULTSORT:De Geer, Carl Johan 1938 births Barons of Sweden Artists from Montreal Swedish artists Swedish male writers Swedish nobility Konstfack alumni Living people Writers from Montreal Swedish people of Belgian descent Carl Johan Recipients of the Illis quorum