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Sirén, Osvald

(Helsinki, Finnland 1879-1966 Stockholm) : Schwedischer Kunsthistoriker, Professor der Universität Stockholm, Konservator Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Gastprofessor Harvard University

Subjects

Art : General / Index of Names : Occident / Sinology and Asian Studies : Europe : Sweden

Chronology Entries (10)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1900 Osvald Sirén promoviert an der Universität Helsinki.
  • Document: Internet (Wichtige Adressen werden separat aufgeführt) (Int, Web)
2 1908-1923 Osvald Sirén ist Professor of History and Theory of Art an der Stockholm Universität.
3 1916-1917 Osvald Sirén ist Dozent an der Yale University.
4 1922-1923 Osvald Sirén reist in China, sammelt Kunst und photographiert.
5 1924-1925 Osvald Sirén ist Konservator am Musée Guimet in Paris.
6 1926-1944 Osvald Sirén leitet die Abteilung Malerei und Skuptur des Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
7 1935 Osvald Sirén reist das letzte Mal in China und sammelt Werke über chinesische Malerei.
  • Document: The reception of Chinese art across cultures. Ed. by Michelle Ying-ling Huang. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
    [Enthält] :
    Part I: Blending Chinese and Foreign Cultures
    Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
    Shades of Mokkei: Muqi-style Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura
    Aaron M. Rio
    Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 23
    Mistakes or Marketing? Western Responses to the Hybrid Style of Chinese Export Painting
    Maria Kar-wing Mok
    Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 44
    "Painted Paper of Pekin": The Taste for Eighteenth-Century Chinese Papers in Britain, c. 1918 - c. 1945
    Clare Taylor
    Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 65
    "Chinese" Paintings by Zdenek Sklenar
    Lucie Olivova
    Part II: Envisioning Chinese Landscape Art
    Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 88
    Binyon and Nash: British Modernists’ Conception of Chinese Landscape Painting
    Michelle Ying-ling Huang
    Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 115
    In Search of Paradise Lost: Osvald Sirén’s Scholarship on Garden Art
    Minna Törmä
    Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 130
    The Return of the Silent Traveller
    Mark Haywood
    Part III: Conceptualising Chinese Art through Display
    Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 154
    Aesthetics and Exclusion: Chinese Objects in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
    Lenore Metrick-Chen
    Chapter Nine ........................................................................................... 179
    Exhibitions of Chinese Painting in Europe in the Interwar Period: The Role of Liu Haisu as Artistic Ambassador
    Michaela Pejcochova
    Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 200
    The Right Stuff: : Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America
    Noelle Giuffrida
    Part IV: Positioning Contemporary
    Chinese Artists in the Globe
    Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 228
    Under the Spectre of Orientalism and Nation: Translocal Crossingsand Discrepant Modernities
    Diana Yeh
    Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 255
    The Reception of Xing Danwen’s Lens-based Art Across Cultures
    Silvia Fok
    Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 278
    Selling Contemporary Chinese Art in the West: A Case Studyof How Yue Minjun’s Art was Marketed in Auctions
    Elizabeth Kim S. 115. (Huang1, Publication)
8 1938-1948 Osvald Sirén ist Generalsekretär der skandinavischen theosophischen Gesellschaft.
9 1948 Sirén, Osvald. Chinese influences of European gardens of the 18th century. Drei Vorträge im Courtauld Institute on Art in London.
  • Document: The reception of Chinese art across cultures. Ed. by Michelle Ying-ling Huang. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
    [Enthält] :
    Part I: Blending Chinese and Foreign Cultures
    Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2
    Shades of Mokkei: Muqi-style Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura
    Aaron M. Rio
    Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 23
    Mistakes or Marketing? Western Responses to the Hybrid Style of Chinese Export Painting
    Maria Kar-wing Mok
    Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 44
    "Painted Paper of Pekin": The Taste for Eighteenth-Century Chinese Papers in Britain, c. 1918 - c. 1945
    Clare Taylor
    Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 65
    "Chinese" Paintings by Zdenek Sklenar
    Lucie Olivova
    Part II: Envisioning Chinese Landscape Art
    Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 88
    Binyon and Nash: British Modernists’ Conception of Chinese Landscape Painting
    Michelle Ying-ling Huang
    Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 115
    In Search of Paradise Lost: Osvald Sirén’s Scholarship on Garden Art
    Minna Törmä
    Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 130
    The Return of the Silent Traveller
    Mark Haywood
    Part III: Conceptualising Chinese Art through Display
    Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 154
    Aesthetics and Exclusion: Chinese Objects in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
    Lenore Metrick-Chen
    Chapter Nine ........................................................................................... 179
    Exhibitions of Chinese Painting in Europe in the Interwar Period: The Role of Liu Haisu as Artistic Ambassador
    Michaela Pejcochova
    Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 200
    The Right Stuff: : Chinese Art Treasures’ Landing in Early 1960s America
    Noelle Giuffrida
    Part IV: Positioning Contemporary
    Chinese Artists in the Globe
    Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 228
    Under the Spectre of Orientalism and Nation: Translocal Crossingsand Discrepant Modernities
    Diana Yeh
    Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 255
    The Reception of Xing Danwen’s Lens-based Art Across Cultures
    Silvia Fok
    Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 278
    Selling Contemporary Chinese Art in the West: A Case Studyof How Yue Minjun’s Art was Marketed in Auctions
    Elizabeth Kim S. 122. (Huang1, Publication)
10 1956 James Cahill arbeitet mit Osvald Sirén zusammen an Chinese painting : leading masters and principles in Stockholm.

Bibliography (10)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1925 Documents d'art chinois de la collection Osvald Sirén. Publiés avec und préface de Raymond Koechlin ; sous la direction de Henri Rivière ; avec la collagoration de Serge Elisseeff, Gustaf Munthe, Osvald Sirén. (Paris : G. van Oest, 1925). (Ars asiatica. Etudes et documents ; 7). Publication / EliS1
2 1926 Siréen, Osvald. The imperial palaces of Peking. (Paris : G. Van Oest, 1926). Publication / Sir4
3 1929-1930 Sirén, Osvald. A history of early Chinese art. Vol. 1-4. (London : E. Benn, 1929-1930).
Vol. 1 : The prehistoric and pre-Han periods.
Vol. 2 : The Han period.
Vol. 3 : Sculpture.
Vol. 4 : Architecture. 		Publication / Sir5
4 1938 Studies in Chinese art and some Indian influences : lectures delivered in connection with the International exhibition of Chinese art at the Royal Academy of Arts. (London : India Society, 1938). [Enthält Beiträge von Joseph Hackin, Osvald Sirén, Langdon Warner und Paul Pelliot]. Publication / Pel6
5 1949 Sirén, Osvald. Gardens of China. (New York, N.Y. : Ronald Press Co., 1949).
https://archive.org/stream/GardensOfChina#page/n0/mode/2up. 		Publication / Siré1
6 1956 Sirén, Osvald. Chinese painting : leading masters and principles. Vol. 1-7. (London : Lund Humphries ; New York, N.Y. : Ronald Press, 1956). Vol. 1 : Early Chinese painting. Vol. 2 : The Sung period. Vol. 3 : Plates. Vol. 4 : The Yuan and early Ming masters. Vol. 5 : The later Ming and leading Ch'ing masters. Vol. 6 : Plates. Vol. 7 : Annotated lists of the works of painters of the Yuan, Ming and Ch'ing periods. Publication / Sir1
7 1959 Sirén, Osvald. Chinesische Skulpturen der Sammlung Eduard von der Heydt. Beschreibender Katalog von Osvald Siren. = Chinese sculptures in the Von der Heydt collection. Übers. aus dem Englischen von Edith Gradmann. (Zürich : Museum Rietberg, 1959). Publication / Sir6
8 1963 Siréen, Osvald. The Chinese on the art of painting : translations and comments. (New York, N.Y. : Schocken Books, 1963). Publication / Sir3
9 1980 Cahill, James. An index of early Chinese painters and paintings : T'ang, Sung, and Yüan. Incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1980). [Tang, Song, Yuan]. Publication / Cah24
10 1990 Sirén, Osvald. China and gardens of Europe of the eighteenth century. (New York, N.Y. : Ronald Press, 1950). Publication / Sir2