Erik Kruskopf

Finnish-Swedish art critic and historian

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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

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* 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

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1. ^ a b c d "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

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

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