Carl Johan De Geer
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. He grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.
Carl Johan De Geer
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- Carl Johan De Geer was born on 13 July 1938. · Montreal.
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- musician · writer · director · painter · filmmaker · photographer · actor
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- Konstfack
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- Swedish
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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. He grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.
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Carl Johan De Geer was an actor, director and filmmaker, among other activities, of Swedish nationality. The actor was born in Montreal. Carl Johan De Geer was educated at Konstfack.
Languages used include Swedish. Works are held at Nationalmuseum.
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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 poster of a burning Swedish flag with the words KUKEN ('COCK') and "Skända flaggan" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The poster 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.
His recorded language was Swedish. He was the child of Louis De Geer. He married Marianne Lindberg De Geer, Marie-Louise Ekman and Gunilla Kvarnström. One child is recorded: Ernst De Geer.
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Carl Johan De Geer is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as musician, writer, director, painter and filmmaker.
Carl Johan De Geer på Stokholms Kulturfestival 2010
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Carl Johan De Geer born at Montreal.
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The circumstances in which Carl Johan De Geer stands. La Physica humani corporis / [a cura di] Giorgio Rialdi.
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- 1.Rydell, Malena. Med passion för adliga kufar. Dagens Nyheter. April 2025.
- 2.Glover, Nikolas. Histories of public diplomacy and nation branding in the Nordic and Baltic countries : representing the periphery. 2015. 978-90-04-30549-6.
- 3.Puss 1968–1973. tidskrift.nu.
- 4.Högman, Åke. Följ med in i Carl Johan De Geer. Telegram Förlag. 2008. 9789174237825.
- 5.Carl Johan De Geer, Livia Fränkel och Britta Marakatt-Labba tilldelas regeringens belöningsmedalj Illis quorum meruere labores. Regeringskansliet. 2017-10-19.
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