Erik Georg Ragnar Kruskopf (born 29 August 1930 in Helsinki) is a Finland-Swedish art critic, art historian and writer.
Kruskopf was director of the Nordic Art Centre () near Helsinki. He has been assistant director at the Finnish National Opera, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, and art history professor at the University of Tromsø. In 1984, he curated an exhibition at the Mingei International Museum, California, of artefacts made by the Sámi peoples.
He was awarded the in 2001.
Writing
- Finnish Design, 1875-1975. A 100 Years of Finnish Industrial Design. Visual History (1975)
- Eila Hiltunen, sculptor (1976)
- Several books about the artist and author Tove Jansson, including Skämttecknaren Tove ("Cartoonist Tove", 1995)
- Människan och mÃÂ¥laren ("The Human and The Painter") (with Ulla-Lena Lundberg), a biography of the painter ÃÂ
ke Hellman published for Hellman's 90th birthday in 2005
- Alvar Aalto kuvataiteilijana ("Alvar Aalto [architect and designer] as 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 museum in Helsinki
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