Stockholm: Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, is famous for drawing the caricature of the Prophet Muhammad who triggered anger around the Muslim world, has died at the age of 86, his family to the Danish media on Sunday.
Westergiard died in his sleep after a long period of health, his family told the newspaper.
Illustrator was behind 12 images published by the Jyllands-Posten Conservative Daily Newspaper under the main headline “Mohammed’s face”, one of which sparked a certain anger.
The cartoons were almost not noticed at first, but after two weeks, demonstrations against them were held in Copenhagen, and then the ambassador from Muslim countries in Denmark submitted a protest.
Anger then increased to anti-denmark violence throughout the Muslim world in February 2006.
Violence related to cartoons peaked in the 2015 massacre that killed 12 people in Charlie Hebdo Satirical Weekly in Paris, who had reprint cartoons in 2012.
Westergaard has worked at Jyllands-posten since the mid-1980s as illustrators, and according to including, the image in question has actually been printed once but without much controversy.
During the last years of Westergaard’s life, such as a number of other people associated with cartoons, had to live under police protection at the secret address.
In early 2010, Danish police arrested a 28-year-old Somali armed with a knife at Westergaard’s house, where he planned to kill him.