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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Osvald Sirén
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Osvald Sirén

Helsinki, 1879 - 1966, Stockholm
BiographySirén, Osvald (Swedish art historian, 1879-1966)

found: His Dessins et tableaux de la renaissance italienne, 1902.
found: 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)
found: Wikipedia, 14 July 2011 (entry: Osvald Sirén; b. Helsinki, 6 Apr. 1879; d. Stockholm, 26 June 1966; Finnish-born Swedish art historian)
found: 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)
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Last Updated8/7/24