Johan Jakob Tikkanen

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JJ Tikkanen
Portrait study by Albert Edelfelt , 1904
Father Paavo Tikkanen with JJ and Johanna Tikkanen, around 1863

Johan Jakob Tikkanen (born December 7, 1857 in Helsinki ; † June 20, 1930 ibid) was a Finnish art historian .

Life

Johann Jakob Tikkanen was the son of Paul Tikkanan (1823–1873) and Helena Maria Tengström (1829–1875). His father was a nationalist journalist and co-founder of the newspaper Suometar and a writer, his maternal grandfather was the university professor of philosophy Johann Jakob Tengström (1787-1858), his younger sister Johanna (1856-1936), later married Schybergson, was an inventor. After the early death of his parents, he lived with his mother's relatives, in whose household Swedish, the language of the educated class in Finland at the time, was spoken. First at Botany interested, he turned by the influence of Nordisten and art historian Carl Gustaf Estlander of art history to.

He received his master's degree in art history in 1880, and the Berlin-based art history professor Eduard Dobbert advised him at the beginning of his career. Tikkanen studied art history in Germany from 1880 at the Munich Art Academy under Moritz Carrière and the art of drawing. He received his doctorate in 1884 from the University of Helsinki with a dissertation on Giotto and developed into a connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance and medieval manuscripts. In the same year he was appointed lecturer (associate professor) for aesthetics and art history at the University of Helsinki , where he gave lectures exclusively in Swedish, from 1907 he also taught in Finnish. Until 1905 he also gave drawing lessons at the private girls' school in Helsinki.

From 1885 to 1889 he made several trips to Europe, from which he brought notes and drawings. He made important art-historical discoveries, such as in 1889 the connection between the mosaics in the vestibule of San Marco in Venice and the illustrations of the Cotton Genesis , a Greek manuscript from the 5th century. In the Vatican Library he discovered an illustrated manuscript of Johannes Klimakos (Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1754), which he published in 1893.

In 1920 he became the first holder of the chair for art history in Finland, named after Hjalmar Linder, and in 1926 he retired . His better-known students include Tancred Borenius , Onni Okkonen and Osvald Sirén .

Fonts (selection)

See the complete list of Johanna Vakkari's publications: JJ Tikkanens Publications ( digitized ). German:

  • Giotto's picturesque style. Attempt a characteristic of the same. Väitöskirja, Helsingfors 1884 (= dissertation, archive.org ).
  • The Genesis mosaics by S. Marco in Venice and their relationship to the miniatures of the Cotton Bible. In addition to a discrepancy about the origin of the medieval representation of Genesis, especially in Byzantine and Italian art. Societas scientiarum Fennica, Helsingfors 1889 ( archive.org ).
  • An illustrated Klimax manuscript from the Vatican Library (= Acta Societatis scientiarum Fennicae. Volume 19, 2). Societas scientiarum Fennicae, Helsingfors 1893.
  • The psalter illustration in the Middle Ages. 3 parts. Helsingfors 1895-1903.
    • 1: The Psalter Illustration in Art History. 1895 ( archive.org ).
    • 2: Byzantine psaltery illustration; manuscripts related to monastic theological editing; the aristocratic psaltery group; individual psalter manuscripts. 1897.
    • 3: The Byzantine Psalter illustration : The Utrecht Psalter (= Acta Societatis scientiarum Fennicae. Volume 31, 5). Finska Vetenskapssocieteten, Helsingfors 1903.
  • Finnish textile ornamentation. 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1901.
  • Decorative arts in Finland. In: Decorative Art. Illustrated magazine for applied arts. Volume 4, 1903, OCLC 604498974 , pp. 121-156.
  • Art in Finland. Society for Reproductive Art, Vienna 1906.
  • Directory of the art collections in the Athenaeum. Helsingfors 1912.
  • Leg positions in art history. A contribution to the history of artistic motifs (= Acta Societatis scientiarum Fennicae. Volume 42, 1). Finska Vetenskapssocieteten, Helsingfors 1913.
  • Studies on Expression in Art. Part 1: Two signs with the index finger (= Acta Societatis scientiarum Fennicae. Volume 43, 2). Finska Vetenskapssocieteten, Helsingfors 1913, OCLC 901903476 , pp. 1-107.
  • Modern visual arts in Finland. Statsrådet, Helsingfors 1925.
    • Modern art in Finland / L'art modern en Finlande. Statsrådet, Helsingfors 1926.
  • Studies on coloring in medieval book illumination (= Commentationes humanarum litterarum. Volume 5, 1). Edited from the author's manuscript by Tancred Borenius. Societas scientiarum Fennica, Helsingfors 1933.

Tikkanen also wrote articles for volumes 1, 3–8, 10–12 and 20 of the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present .

Swedish, Finnish:

  • Anteckningar från sommaren 1874. (= Frenckellska tryckeri aktiebolagets presentboksserie Volume 8). Helsingfors 1955.
  • Om wäxternas utbredning. (= Pennibibliotek för swenske allemogen i Finland utgifwet af nyländingar. Volume 34). Edlund, Helsingfors 1879.
  • Venice and the Const. Otava 1891.
  • Finska konstföreningen 1846-1896. GW Edlund, Helsingfors 1896.
  • Keskiaikaisen taiteen luonne. Tekijä, Helsinki 1907.
  • Kuvaamataiteet uudemmalla ajalla: Pääpiirteittäin. Otava 1910.
  • Titian. Schildt, Borgå 1916.
  • Madonnabildens historia och den kristna konstuppfattningen. Lilius & Hertzberg, Helsingfors 1916.
  • Catalog öfver konstsamlingarna i Ateneum. Konstsamlingarna i Ateneum, Helsingfors 1911, lisäpainos 1914, uusi painos 1920.
  • Ateneumin taidekokoelmien luettelo. Helsinki 1911; uusi painos toim. Torsten Stjernschantz 1920.
  • Konsthistoria: Måleri och sculpture från fornkristna tider till våra dagar. Soderström, Helsingfors 1925.
  • Taidehistoria: Maalaus ja kuvanveisto muinaiskristillisistä ajoista meidän päiviimme. Ilmari Ahman suomentama. Otava 1927.

literature

  • Georg Nordensvan : Tikkanen, 2. Johan Jakob T. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 29 : Tidsekvation – trompe . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 44 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Osvald Sirén: Johan Jakob Tikkanen som konsthistoriker. Mercator, Helsingfors 1933 (biography in Swedish).
  • Sixten Ringbom: Art History in Finland before 1920 (= History of learning and science in Finland 1828-1918. Volume 15 b). Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki 1986, OCLC 299702375 , p. 62 ff.
  • Johanna Vakkari: Focus on Form: JJ Tikkanen, Giotto and Art Research in the 19th Century. Dissertation, University of Helsinki 2007 ( helda.helsinki.fi ).
  • Aimo Reitala: Tikkanen, Johan Jakob. In: Biografisk lexikon för Finland. Volume 2. Helsingfors 2009, ISBN 978-951-583-185-9 , urn : nbn: fi: sls-4838-1416928957444 (Swedish).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Nordensvan : Tikkanen, 1. Paul T. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 29 : Tidsekvation – trompe . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 43-44 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database .
  3. ↑ Manuscript Vat. Gr. 1754. Scan. In: digi.vatlib.it, accessed on December 4, 2017 (see also the “Read more” on scientific reception there).
  4. ↑ The nya konsthistory professors in Helsingfors. In: Åbo Underrättelser. March 28, 1920, p. 6 (No. 86) , accessed December 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Johanna Vakkari: Alcuni contemporanei finlandesi di Lionello Venturi: Osvald Siren, Tancred Borenius, Onni Okkonen. In: Storia dell'Arte. N. S. 1 = 101, 2002, ISSN  0587-1131 , pp. 108-117.
personal data
SURNAME Tikkanen, Johan Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tikkanen, JJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1930
Place of death Helsinki