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Erik Kruskopf

Erik Georg Ragnar Kruskopf (29 August 1930 – 9 April 2026) was a Finnish art critic, art historian and writer.[1]

Erik Kruskopf
Born(1930-08-29)29 August 1930[1]
Helsinki, Finland
Died9 April 2026(2026-04-09) (aged 95)
Siuntio, Finland[2]
OccupationsArt critic, art historian and writer

Life and career

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A member of Finland's Swedish-speaking community, Kruskopf was director of the Nordic Art Centre (Nordiska Konstförbundet [fi]) near Helsinki.[1] He was 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.[3]

He was awarded the Tollander’s Prize [sv] in 2001.[4]

Kruskopf died on 9 April 2026, at the age of 95.[5][6]

Writing

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  • Finnish Design, 1875-1975. A 100 Years of Finnish Industrial Design. Visual History (1975)[7]
  • Eila Hiltunen, sculptor (1976)[8]
  • Several books about the artist and author Tove Jansson,[9][10] including Skämttecknaren Tove ("Cartoonist Tove", 1995)[11]
  • 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)[12]
  • 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[13]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Kruskopf, Erik". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  2. ↑ Death notice in Helsingin Sanomat, 19 April 2026, p. B 29.
  3. ↑ "Sami Daidda: Art of Lapland". Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  4. ↑ "Tollanderska priset". Boksampo (in Swedish). Biblioteken.fi. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Konstkritikern Erik Kruskopf har dött". Svenska Yle (in Swedish). 14 April 2026. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
  6. ↑ Svanbäck, Andrea (14 April 2026). "Konstkritikern Erik Kruskopf är död". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). p. 19. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ "Erik Kruskopf: Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana [Alvar Aalto as visual artist]". Books from Finland. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  13. ↑ "Constructors of Light". Finnish Fine Arts Foundations. 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
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