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Johannes Holbek (Nov. 13, 1872 - 1903) was a Danish painter, illustrator and writer who studied very briefly at the Royal Academy before going of in search of Van Gogh and Gauguin’s mad visions. He studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau and others,

After his return to Denmark he began working for a newspaper, creating satirical drawings, and he also illustrated books, such as the poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was also working on a hybrid religious and philosophical work in drawings and text, but never finished it.

His Symbolist visions became more and more outré and he seemed headed for a psychotic breakdown, which came in 1903 and led to his hospitalization and death (possibly be his own hand).