Erik Kruskopf
{{Short description|Finnish-Swedish art critic and historian}}
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Erik Georg Ragnar Kruskopf (born 29 August 1930 in Helsinki) is a Finland-Swedish art critic, art historian and writer.{{cite web |title=Kruskopf, Erik |url=https://www.uppslagsverket.fi/sv/sok/view-170045-KruskopfErik |website=Uppslagsverket Finland |access-date=9 October 2024|language=fi}}
Kruskopf was director of the Nordic Art Centre ({{ill|Nordiska Konstförbundet|fi}}) near Helsinki. He has been assistant director at the Finnish National Opera, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, 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.{{cite web |title=Sami Daidda: Art of Lapland |url=https://mingei.org/exhibitions/sami-daidda |publisher=Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art |access-date=9 October 2024}}
He was awarded the {{Interlanguage link|Tollanderska Prize|sv|Tollanderska priset}} in 2001.{{cite web | title=Tollanderska priset | website=Boksampo | url=https://www.boksampo.fi/sv/kulsa/saha3%253Aub68c4716-1d74-4340-8f9e-61316a55ba7a |publisher=Biblioteken.fi | language=sv | access-date=9 October 2024}}
Writing
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- Finnish Design, 1875-1975. A 100 Years of Finnish Industrial Design. Visual History (1975){{cite journal |last1=Myllyntaus |first1=Timo |title=Design in Building an Industrial Identity: The Breakthrough of Finnish Design in the 1950s and 1960s |journal=Icon |date=2010 |volume=16 |issue=10 |pages=201–225 |jstor=23791383 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23791383 |access-date=9 October 2024}}
- Eila Hiltunen, sculptor (1976){{cite book| chapter=Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy|title= Jean Sibelius and His World |editor-first=Daniel M.|editor-last =Grimley|pages=338–353|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2011}}
- Several books about the artist and author Tove Jansson,{{cite book | last1=Beckett | first1=S.L. | last2=Nikolajeva | first2=M. | title=Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature | publisher=Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-8108-5415-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FR_syQAnpZYC&pg=PA79 | access-date=9 October 2024 | page=79}}{{cite book | last1=Karjalainen | first1=T. | last2=McDuff | first2=D. | title=Tove Jansson: Work and Love | publisher=Penguin Books Limited | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-84614-849-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-i2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1878 | access-date=9 October 2024 | page=1878}} including Skämttecknaren Tove ("Cartoonist Tove", 1995){{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Birgitta |title=Literature |journal=The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |date=1996 |volume=58 |pages=965–983 |doi=10.1163/22224297-90000148 |jstor=25832783 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25832783 |access-date=9 October 2024|url-access=subscription }}
- 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){{cite web | title=Erik Kruskopf: Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana [Alvar Aalto as visual artist] | website=Books from Finland | date=14 June 2012 | url=https://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2012/06/erik-kruskopf-alvar-aalto-kuvataiteilijana/ | access-date=9 October 2024}}
- 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{{cite web |title=Constructors of Light |url=https://taidesaatiot.fi/en/constructors-of-light |publisher=Finnish Fine Arts Foundations |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=2012}}
References
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External links
- [https://proartibus.fi/en/collection/item/813565-erik-kruskopf Portrait of Kruskopf] by {{ill|Georg Engeström|fi}}
- [https://sls.finna.fi/Collection/sls.SLSA+1311 Kruskopf's papers] at Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
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Category:Finnish writers in Swedish