Sixten Ringbom

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 materÅbo Akademi University
Occupationart historian, professor
Notable work
The Sounding Cosmos (1970)
ChildrenVeronika Ringbom[1]
Parent(s)
  • Lars-Ivar Ringbom[2] (father)

Biography
External image
Sixten Ringbom.[3]

Sixten Ringbom was the son of Lars-Ivar Ringbom, 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

Notes
  1. "Works: 93 works in 255 publications in 9 languages and 1,484 library holdings."[7]

References
  1. Kruskopf.
  2. Lindberg1.
  3. Lindberg2.
  4. Nummelin.
  5. Introvigne 2018, pp. 31, 32.
  6. Introvigne 2018, p. 31.
  7. WorldCat.

Sources
  • "Ringbom, Sixten". WorldCat Identities. OCLC WorldCat. 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  • Introvigne, M. (2018). "The Sounding Cosmos Revisited". Nova Religio. University of California. 21 (3): 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.
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