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Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom (July 27, 1935 – August 18, 1992) was a Finnish art historian.

Sixten Ringbom
Born	(1935-07-27)27 July 1935 Turku
Died	(1992-08-18)18 August 1992 Turku
Citizenship	Finland
Alma mater	Åbo Akademi University
Occupation	art historian, professor
Notable work	The Sounding Cosmos (1970)
Children	Veronika Ringbom[1]
Parent	Lars-Ivar Ringbom[2] (father)

Biography

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Sixten Ringbom.[3]

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]

Published works

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)

See also

• Theosophy and visual arts

Notes

References

Sources

На других языках

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- [en] Sixten Ringbom

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[ru] Рингбом, Сикстен

Сикстен Ивар Александр Рингбом (швед. Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom; 27 июля 1935 (1935-07-27), Турку — 18 августа 1992, Турку) — финский искусствовед и писатель .

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