Vilks, who became well-known in Sweden in the 1990s after attempting to establish the sovereign country of Ladonia in order to stage an art exhibit, lives in a rural area of southern Sweden.

In 1980, Vilks began building Nimis in secret ... Visit Atlas Obscura for more on Ladonia. Photo: Lars Nilsson/Creative Commons ...

Lars Endel Roger Vilks was born on 20 June 1946 in Helsingborg ... by 1996 Vilks had proclaimed the area to be Ladonia, an independent country. Currently there are 25,302 citizens of Ladonia ...

The Nimis sculpture, by Lars Vilks. Photo: Staffan Löwstedt/SvD/TT On a rocky beach in a southern Swedish nature reserve, lies the micronation of Ladonia, born out of a bureaucratic battle. On a rocky ...

This micronation is called Ladonia, officially proclaimed in 1996 following a legal dispute between Swedish artist Lars Vilks and local authorities over two of his sculptures. Vilks began building ...

Although Sweden has not recognized the independence of Ladonia, the constitutional monarchy is currently ruled by Queen Carolyn I and President Christopher Matheoss. Dr. Lars Vilks, the cartoonist ...

Ladonia is a micronation, proclaimed in 1996 as the result of a years-long court battle between artist Lars Vilks and local authorities over two sculptures. The territory is part of the natural ...

Last month's attacks on Paris' Charlie Hebdo offices and Saturday's shootings in Copenhagen, which are thought to have targeted Lars Vilks ... country he called Ladonia. Vilks' work was similarly ...

Lars Vilks, 75, had been living under around-the-clock police protection since the 2007 drawing of the Muslim founder fueled death threats and direct attempts on his life. He died Sunday when the ...

Lars Vilks is the Swedish cartoonist who is believed ... area where they are sited as an independent country he called Ladonia. In 2007 he drew a series of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed ...

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of ...