When Klassikern in P1 did a report on De Geer’s artwork, it emerged that some copies of the graphic suite still exist, including the motif showing a burning Swedish flag with the word “cock” written over it in pencil. These are marked proofs. A total of seven works with three different motifs were found at the Police Museum.
The police seized the art in 1967, and Carl Johan De Geer was sentenced to a fine under the law at the time for insulting a national symbol and sedition. De Geer never got his artwork back.
“I was only told that they had been confiscated and that I couldn’t get them back because possessing them would constitute a crime. But I was extremely sad and, first of all, enormously surprised. This thing shakes me, the whole thing,” Carl Johan De Geer tells Kulturnytt in P1.
Since then, the law has changed, and he would now like to get the remaining works of art back.
However, the director of the Police Museum, Henrik Lindborg, does not know why the art was never destroyed or whether the artist can get it back.
He emphasizes that “the legal aspects” need to be clarified. According to Lindborg, the works are part of Swedish cultural heritage, and the museum would be interested in telling their story.
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