Sixten_Ringbom
Sixten Ringbom
Finnish art historian
Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom (July 27, 1935 – August 18, 1992) was a Finnish art historian.
Sixten Ringbom | |
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| Born | (1935-07-27)27 July 1935 |
| Died | (1992-08-18)18 August 1992 |
| Citizenship |  Finland |
| Alma mater | Åbo Akademi University |
| Occupation(s) | art historian, professor |
| Notable work | The Sounding Cosmos (1970) |
| Children | Veronika Ringbom[1] |
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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]
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)
- Introvigne 2018, pp. 31, 32.
- Introvigne 2018, p. 31.
Sources
- "Ringbom, Sixten". WorldCat Identities. OCLC WorldCat. 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- Introvigne, M. (2018). "The Sounding Cosmos Revisited". Nova Religio. 21 (3). University of California: 29–46. ISSN 1541-8480. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- Kruskopf, Erik (2009). "Ringbom, Veronika". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Svenska folkskolans vänner. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- Lindberg, Bo Ossian (2006). "Ringbom, Lars-Ivar (1901–1971)". Kansallisbiografia (in Finnish). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ———— (2014). "Ringbom, Sixten (1935–1992)". Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- Nummelin, Rolf (2009). "Ringbom, Sixten". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Svenska folkskolans vänner. Retrieved 27 July 2019.