Sirén, Osvald, 1879-1966

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Name (Latin)
Sirén, Osvald, 1879-1966
Other forms of name
Aosiwu'erde Xirenlong, 1879-1966
Date of birth
1879
Date of death
1966
Associated country
China
Finland
Sweden
Field of activity
Art, Chinese
Occupation
Art historians
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 33032778
Wikidata: Q733791
Library of congress: n 50025578
Sources of Information
  • Beijing de cheng qiang he cheng men, 2017 :title page (奥斯伍尔德 ・喜仁龙 = Aosiwu'erde Xirenlong [chi rom.])
  • China and gardens of Europe of the eighteenth century, 1950:t.p. (Osvald Sirén, formerly of the University of Stockholm, the National Museum in Stockholm)
  • The times, 17 June, 1966:p. 14 (obituary: Prof. Osvald Sirén, authority on Chinese art; born in Helsinki in 1879 and educated there at the university; in 1901 he became an assistant at the National Museum in Stockholm; he was appointed professor of Fine Arts at Stockholm University in 1908 and held the post until 1925; three years later he returned to the National Museum in Stockholm as Keeper of Painting and Sculpture until he retired in 1945)
  • Wikipedia, 14 July 2011(entry: Osvald Sirén; b. Helsinki, 6 Apr. 1879; d. Stockholm, 26 June 1966; Finnish-born Swedish art historian)
  • His Dessins et tableaux de la renaissance italienne, 1902.
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