Sixten ringbom biography

Finnish art historian (1935–1992)

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

Biography

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.

Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom was a Finnish art historian.

Sixten Ringbom (–) was Professor of Art History at Åbo Akademi University.

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

The author of many art historical works, Sixten Ringbom (), was a Finish art historian who completed his Ph.D.

Who Was Sixten Ringbom?

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.

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 Gen