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Claes Oldenburg
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. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York…
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culture · Swedish-born American sculptor (1929–2022) · sculptor · painter · graphic artist · designer · draftsperson · printmaker · performance artist · architectural drafter · visual artist · also Claes Oldenburg, Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg, Claes Thure Oldenburg, Oldenburg
Born 28 January 1929 · Died 18 July 2022 · Q156731
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2022· 10 entries
Chicago Tribune: Artist Claes Oldenburg, maker of huge urban sculptures like ‘Batcolumn’ in Chicago, dies
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Hyperallergic: Claes Oldenburg, Whose Sculptures Transformed the Everyday, Dies at 93
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New York Post: Claes Oldenburg, iconic pop artist, dead at 93
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Yahoo: Artist Claes Oldenburg, Maker of Huge Urban Sculptures, Dies
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Artnet: Claes Oldenburg, the Leading Pop-Art Sculptor Who Turned Hamburgers and Erasers Into Whimsical Totems of the 20th Century, Has Died at 93
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KPBS: Claes Oldenburg, creator of Pop Art on a giant scale, has died at age 93
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UPI: Claes Oldenburg, an icon of pop art, dies at 93
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Oldenburg died at his home in Manhattan from complications of a fall, aged 93
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Died 2022-07-18.
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2018· 1 entry
The Maze was included in 1968: Sparta Dreaming Athens at Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
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2011· 1 entry
Paint Torch is a towering 53-foot-high (16 m) pop sculpture of a paintbrush, capped with bristles that are illuminated at night
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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2005· 1 entry
And the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2011
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2002· 1 entry
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a retrospective of the drawings of Oldenburg and van Bruggen; the same year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exhibited a selection of their sculptures on the
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2001· 1 entry
Oldenburg and van Bruggen created Dropped Cone, a huge inverted ice cream cone, on top of a shopping center in Cologne, Germany
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1996· 1 entry
To make a documentary about himself in association with The South Bank Show which was broadcast on ITV
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts (1995).
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(travelling to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D
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1992· 1 entry
Oldenburg and van Bruggen acquired Château de la Borde, a small Loire Valley chateau, whose music room gave them the idea of making a domestically sized collection
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (1989).
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1988· 2 entries
The two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
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When Oldenburg, van Bruggen and Gehry presented Coltello Recalled: Reflections on a Performance at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center and the exhibition Props, Costumes and Designs for the Performance "Il
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1986· 1 entry
And the building-mounted sculpture Giant Binoculars, completed in Venice Beach in 1991
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award (1981).
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1977· 1 entry
And continued to work collaboratively for 30 years, developing over 40 public pieces, which they called ‘large-scale projects’
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1970· 2 entries
(chronicled in a 1970 twin-projection documentary by James Scott called The Great Ice Cream Robbery); and with a retrospective organized by Germano Celant at the Solomon R
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When Oldenburg's first major retrospective traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where van Bruggen was a curator
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1969· 1 entry
Oldenberg contributed a drawing to the Moon Museum
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1967· 1 entry
New York city cultural adviser Sam Green realized Oldenburg's first outdoor public monument; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,
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1965· 1 entry
Turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments
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1963· 1 entry
"because it was the most opposite thing to New York [he] could think of"
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1961· 1 entry
Shifted his method, creating sculptures from chicken wire covered with plaster-soaked canvas and enamel paint, depicting everyday objects – articles of clothing and food items
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1960· 1 entry
Claes Oldenburg was married to his first wife Patty Mucha from 1960 to 1970, after Mucha moved to New York City in 1957 to become an artist.
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1959· 1 entry
At the Judson Gallery in New York, had shown figurative drawings and papier-mâché sculptures
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1957· 1 entry
When he completed a free-hanging piece made from a woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper
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1956· 1 entry
Moved to New York, and for a time worked in the library of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, where he also took the opportunity to learn more, on his own, about the history of art
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1953· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1936· 1 entry
Was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-01-28.
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In Stockholm, the son of Gösta Oldenburg and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss
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