Claes Oldenburg
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Death | 2 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 28,1929 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Stockholm |
| Sweden | |
| Periods | Pop art |
| Modern art | |
| Avant-garde | |
| Spouse | Coosje van Bruggen |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Public art | |
| sculpture, artist | |
| Job | Sculptor |
| Visual Artist | |
| Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Latin School of Chicago | |
| Yale University | |
| Official site | oldenburgvanbruggen.com |
| Children | Maartje Oldenburg |
| Parents | Sigrid Elisabeth Lindforss |
| Gösta Oldenburg | |
| Siblings | Richard Oldenburg |
| Period by artworks | Pop art |
| Modern art | |
| Works | Clothespin Sculpture |
| Typewriter Eraser, Scale X | |
| Floor Cake | |
| Plug | |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | July 18,2022 |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Arts - Sculpture |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 439094 |
Large-scale projects
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way
A bottle of notes and some voyages
Notes in hand
The Mouse Museum, the Ray Gun Wing
Claes Oldenburg, large-scale projects, 1977-1980
Store Days: Documents from The Store, 1961, and Ray Gun Theater, 1962
Proposals for monuments and buildings, 1965-69
Images À la Carte
Inverted collar and tie
Raw Notes: Documents and Scripts of the Performances: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, The Typewriter
Claes Oldenburg: object into monument
Course of the Knife
Sketches and blottings toward the European desktop
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen: The Music Room, April 22-June 18, 2005
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen: May 3-June 28, 2002
Injun and Other Histories
Double Vision: The Poetic Focus of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
Vision: California
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Claes Oldenburg Life story
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects.
Radical pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies at 93
Influential Swedish-born sculptor Claes Oldenburg - whose giant works of everyday objects delight Millions - has died in his New York City home aged 93.
The Pace Gallery that represented him said he had recently suffered a fall.
It described him as " one of The Most radical artists of the 20Th Century . . in the development of pop art".
Oldenburg , who moved to the US in the 1950s, is known for his trademark works depicting clothes pegs, baseball bats, hamburgers and electric plugs.
Many of his sculptures adorn public spaces in the US and around The World .
" My intention is to make an everyday object that eludes definition, " he was quoted as saying in The New York Times.
Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009.
In a BBC interview in 2015, Mr Oldenburg said: " At The End of the '60s, I started to become interested in architecture and in Turning objects into architecture.
" So I made A Number Of Studies of buildings that I would propose for cities in the form of objects. There's a whole collection of them, including several for New York . "
His proposals took the form of self-consciously absurd drawings. In one sketch from 1965, for instance, he presents a gargantuan Teddy Bear sitting slumped at the North End of Central Park - Turning the entire city into a playground.
The Sculptor himself never believed that his tongue-in-cheek ideas would actually be Built - he was more interested in creating playful ideas that were at the same time amusing and slightly Sinister .
Source of news: bbc.com
Claes Oldenburg Photos
