Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which triggered several assassinations and murders committed by Islamists around the world, diplomatic conflicts, and state-organized riots and attacks on Western embassies with several dead in Muslim countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Westergaard has received more than 252,180 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kurt Westergaard is the 893rd most popular painter (down from 820th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 213th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Danish Painter.