Three photographs of August Strindberg

Last year's August Strindberg anniversary - marking that a hundred years have passed since he died - has been celebrated widely both in Sweden and abroad. My own somewhat belated homage to the great  writer comes in the form of these portraits, which the Swedish weekly Hvar 8 Dag published in its May 19, 1912 issue, five days after the writer's death:

(Photographer: Herman Hamnqvist, Stockholm)

(Photo by unnamed photographer of the Hvar 8 Dag magazine)

(Photographer: Sandels J:or, Stockholm)