Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born 13 July 1938) is a
Swedish artist, writer, musician and ''
friherre'' (
baron
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) 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
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. 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
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sympathies in a film called ("Grandmother, Hitler and I").
Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 poster of a burning
Swedish flag with the words ('COCK') and "" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The poster was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately confiscated by the
police
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. 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.
References
External links
*
Marianne Lindberg de Geer's website* Sinziana Ravini: ''Marianne Lindberg De Geer och kritiken'' (Dunkers kulturhus, 2010)
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1938 births
Swedish barons
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