Erik Kruskopf

Erik Kruskopf
Born	(1930-08-30) August 30, 1930 (age 94) [1]
Occupation(s)	art critic, art historian and writer

Erik Georg Ragnar Kruskopf (born 29 August 1930 in Helsinki) is a Finland-Swedish art critic, art historian and writer. ^[1]

Kruskopf was director of the Nordic Art Centre (Nordiska Konstförbundet  [ fi ]) near Helsinki. ^[1] He has been assistant director at the Finnish National Opera, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet , ^[1] and art history professor at the University of Tromsø. In 1984, he curated an exhibition at the Mingei International Museum, California, of artefacts made by the Sámi peoples. ^[2]

He was awarded the Tollanderska Prize  [ sv ] in 2001. ^[3]

Writing

• Finnish Design, 1875-1975. A 100 Years of Finnish Industrial Design. Visual History (1975) ^[4]
• Eila Hiltunen , sculptor (1976) ^[5]
• Several books about the artist and author Tove Jansson, ^{[6] [7]} including Skämttecknaren Tove ("Cartoonist Tove", 1995) ^[8]
• Människan och målaren ("The Human and The Painter") (with Ulla-Lena Lundberg), a biography of the painter Åke Hellman published for Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005
• Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana ("Alvar Aalto [architect and designer] as visual artist", 2011) ^[9]
• Constructors of Light, the exhibition catalogue for a 2012 exhibition of Finnish artists of the 1940s and 1950s held at the Amos Rex museum in Helsinki ^[10]

References

1. "Kruskopf, Erik". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Finnish). Retrieved 9 October 2024.
2. "Sami Daidda: Art of Lapland". Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
3. "Tollanderska priset". Boksampo (in Swedish). Biblioteken.fi. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
4. Myllyntaus, Timo (2010). "Design in Building an Industrial Identity: The Breakthrough of Finnish Design in the 1950s and 1960s". Icon. 16 (10): 201–225. JSTOR   23791383 . Retrieved 9 October 2024.
5. Grimley, Daniel M., ed. (2011). "Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy". Jean Sibelius and His World. Princeton University Press. pp. 338–353.
6. Beckett, S.L.; Nikolajeva, M. (2006). Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature. Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press. p. 79. ISBN   978-0-8108-5415-4 . Retrieved 9 October 2024.
7. Karjalainen, T.; McDuff, D. (2014). Tove Jansson: Work and Love. Penguin Books Limited. p. 1878. ISBN   978-1-84614-849-1 . Retrieved 9 October 2024.
8. Thompson, Birgitta (1996). "Literature" . The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 58: 965–983. doi:10.1163/22224297-90000148. JSTOR   25832783 . Retrieved 9 October 2024.
9. "Erik Kruskopf: Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana [Alvar Aalto as visual artist]". Books from Finland. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
10. "Constructors of Light". Finnish Fine Arts Foundations. 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

External links

• Portrait of Kruskopf by Georg Engeström  [ fi ]
• Kruskopf's papers at Society of Swedish Literature in Finland