Johannes Kjarval’s Landscape Painting

Origin
Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885 - 1972) was an Icelandic painter, considered by many to be one of the most important artists of Iceland.

The Guomundur and Geirfinnur case, also known as the Reykjavik Confessions is a case concerning the disappearances of Guomundur Einarsson and Geirfinnur Einarsson in 1974. Six different, unrelated people were convicted of their alleged murders due to each person confessing to the crime. They confessed despite the lack of bodies, witnesses or any forensic evidence. In a sweep the police arrested all six, later discovering that three of the confessors had indeed killed the men and hidden the bodies, the other three were acquitted.

The painting hung on the wall in the police station, each suspect passed the painting on the way into the interrogation room and stared into it for ten seconds.

The officers’ desire to solve the case due to pressure from the public was absorbed into the painting

Effects
Victims will confess to any crime that they are accused of regardless of their involvement.