The Sharp Edge of a Swedish Illustrator To look at the work of Bertil Lybeck is to encounter a man who lived between the lines of high art and popular satire. He was not merely a painter; he was a draftsman, a book illustrator, and a cartoonist whose presence in the early twentieth century was defined by a restless, cosmopolitan energy. Born in Gothenburg in 1887, Lybeck did not follow the safe path laid out by his father, an industri…