Erik Georg Ragnar Kruskopf (born 29 August 1930 in

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) is a

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art critic, art historian and writer. Kruskopf was director of the Nordic Art Centre () near Helsinki. He has been assistant director at the

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, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper ''

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'', and art history professor at the

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. In 1984, he curated an exhibition at the

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, of artefacts made by the

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. He was awarded the in 2001.

Writing

* ''Finnish Design, 1875-1975. A 100 Years of Finnish Industrial Design. Visual History'' (1975) * ''

Eila Hiltunen Eila Vilhelmina Hiltunen (22 November 1922, Sortavala – 10 October 2003, Helsinki) was a Finland, Finnish sculptor. She is most famous for the Sibelius Monument (1967). A statue by Hiltunen resembling a smaller version of the Sibelius Monument s ...

'', sculptor (1976) * Several books about the artist and author

Tove Jansson Tove Marika Jansson (; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, ...

, including ''Skämttecknaren Tove'' ("Cartoonist Tove", 1995) *''Människan och målaren'' ("The Human and The Painter") (with Ulla-Lena Lundberg), a biography of the painter

Åke Hellman Åke Fredrik Hellman (19 July 1915 – 18 December 2017) was a Finland Swede, Swedish-speaking Finland, Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the orde ...

published for Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005 * ''

Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...

kuvataiteilijana'' ("Alvar Aalto rchitect and designeras visual artist", 2011) * ''Constructors of Light'', the exhibition catalogue for a 2012 exhibition of Finnish artists of the 1940s and 1950s held at the

Amos Rex Amos Rex is an art museum named after the publisher and arts patron Amos Anderson and located in Lasipalatsi, on Mannerheimintie boulevard in Helsinki, Finland. It opened in 2018 and rapidly reached international popularity, attracting more tha ...

museum in Helsinki

References

External links

Portrait of Kruskopf
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Kruskopf's papers
at

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