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Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom (July 27, 1935 – August 18, 1992) was a Finnish art historian.

Biography

Sixten Ringbom was the son of Lars-Ivar Ringbom [sv], a professor of art history at Åbo Akademi University. He studied at the Swedish classical lyceum (Swedish: Svenska klassiska lyceum) in Turku, then at the Åbo Akademi University among students of his father. In 1965, Sixten received his PhD. A supervisor his doctoral thesis was art historian Ernst Gombrich. In 1970, Ringbom succeeded his father as professor of art history at Åbo Akademi University.[3][4][5]

Ringbom became the first scientist who has supposed an existence of a connection between early abstract art and occultism. He published his conjectures in an article "Art in 'The Epoch of the Great Spiritual': Occult Elements in the Early Theory of Abstract Painting" (1966) and in a book The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting (1970).[3][6] According to WorldCat, he had written 93 works.[note 1] From 1969 to 1973, he was the chief editor of Finsk Tidskrift, he was also the editor of a book Konsten i Finland [Art in Finland].[4]

Published works

Books

  • Icon to Narrative. The Rise of the Dramatic Close-Up in Fifteenth-Century Devotional Painting (1965)
  • The Sounding Cosmos. A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting (1970)
  • Konsten i Finland: från medeltid till nutid (1978)
  • Kandinsky und 'Der Blaue Reiter'. German Art of the 20th Century (1985)
  • Art History in Finland before 1920 (1986)
  • Stone, Style and Truth. The Vogue for Natural Stone in Nordic Architecture 1880−1910 (1987)
  • Pinta ja syvyys: esseitä (1989)

Selected articles

  • "'Maria in Sole' and the Virgin of the Rosary" (1962)
  • "Plato on Images" (1965)
  • "Art in 'The Epoch of the Great Spiritual': Occult Elements in the Early Theory of Abstract Painting" (1966)
  • "Devotional Images and Imaginative Devotions" (1969)
  • "Paul Klee and the Inner Truth to Nature" (1977)
  • "Transcending the Visible" (1985)
  • "Action and Report. The Problem of Indirect Narration in the Academic Theory of Painting" (1988)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Works: 93 works in 255 publications in 9 languages and 1,484 library holdings."[7]

References

  1. ^ Kruskopf.
  2. ^ Lindberg1.
  3. ^ a b c Lindberg2.
  4. ^ a b Nummelin.
  5. ^ Introvigne 2018, pp. 31, 32.
  6. ^ Introvigne 2018, p. 31.
  7. ^ WorldCat.

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