Portrait of August Strindberg

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Johan August Strindberg (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who frequently drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his predictions of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature, and his The Red Room (1879) has often been described as the first modern Swedish novel. These 3D scans were produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates, due to inaccessible areas and so on deviations from the original might occur. Photography credit: CC BY SA - Linn Ahlgren / Nationalmuseum