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Finnish art historian (1935–1992)

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

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

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image icon 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]

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

  2. ^ Kruskopf.

  3. ^ Lindberg1.

  4. ^ a b c Lindberg2.

  5. ^ a b Nummelin.

  6. ^ Introvigne 2018, pp. 31, 32.

  7. ^ Introvigne 2018, p. 31.

  8. ^ WorldCat.