What is Lars Vilks?
{{Infobox artist | image = Lars Vilks (cropped).jpg | name = Lars Vilks | caption = Vilks at the site of ''Nimis'' in [[Kullaberg]] | birth_name = Lars Endel Roger Vilks | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1946|06|20}} | birth_place = [[Helsingborg]], Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|10|03|1946|06|20|df=y}} | death_place = [[Markaryd]], Sweden | field = [[Conceptual art]]<br />Sculpture | works = ''Nimis'' (1980)<br />''Arx'' (1991)<br />Muhammad drawings (2007) }} '''Lars Vilks''' (20 June 1946 – 3 October 2021) was a Swedish artist. He was best known for his mock drawings of the prophet Mohammed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/copenhagen-shootings-cartoonist-lars-vilks-goes-into-hiding-10050168.html|title=Copenhagen shootings: Cartoonist Lars Vilks goes into hiding|date=16 February 2015|work=The Independent|author=KASHMIRA GANDER|accessdate=3 October 2021}}</ref> Vilks was born in [[Helsingborg]], [[Sweden]]. Vilks died in a car accident on 3 October 2021 in [[Markaryd]], Sweden at the age of 75.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/en-till-sjukhus-pa-e4-fordon-fattade-eld/|title=Konstnären Lars Vilks och två poliser döda i trafikolycka|trans-title=Artist Lars Vilks and two police officers dead in traffic accident |website=Expressen|accessdate=3 October 2021|date=3 October 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commonscat-inline|Lars Vilks}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vilks, Lars}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Swedish artists]] [[Category:Road accident deaths]] [[Category:People from Helsingborg]] [[Category:20th-century artists]] [[Category:21st-century artists]]