Erik Kruskopf Explained

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 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 in 2001.^[3]

Writing

• 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]

External links

• Portrait of Kruskopf by
• Kruskopf's papers at Society of Swedish Literature in Finland

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kruskopf, Erik . Uppslagsverket Finland . 9 October 2024. fi.
2. Web site: Sami Daidda: Art of Lapland . Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art . 9 October 2024.
3. Web site: Tollanderska priset . Boksampo . Biblioteken.fi . sv . 9 October 2024.
4. Myllyntaus . Timo . Design in Building an Industrial Identity: The Breakthrough of Finnish Design in the 1950s and 1960s . Icon . 2010 . 16 . 10 . 201–225 . 23791383 . 9 October 2024.
5. Book: Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy. Jean Sibelius and His World . Daniel M.. Grimley. 338–353. Princeton University Press. 2011.
6. Book: Beckett . S.L. . Nikolajeva . M. . Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature . Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press . 2006 . 978-0-8108-5415-4 . 9 October 2024 . 79.
7. Book: Karjalainen . T. . McDuff . D. . Tove Jansson: Work and Love . Penguin Books Limited . 2014 . 978-1-84614-849-1 . 9 October 2024 . 1878.
8. Thompson . Birgitta . Literature . The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies . 1996 . 58 . 965–983 . 10.1163/22224297-90000148 . 25832783 . 9 October 2024.
9. Web site: Erik Kruskopf: Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana [Alvar Aalto as visual artist] ]. Books from Finland . 14 June 2012 . 9 October 2024.
10. Web site: Constructors of Light . Finnish Fine Arts Foundations . 9 October 2024 . 2012.