Claes Oldenburg
Sign in to saveAmerican sculptor and printmaker (1929–2022)
Person
- Born
- 1929-01-28
- Died
- 2022-07-18
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 54
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5 total works indexed
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 60,430x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 21,074x
- Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error: Algebra and Statistics
· 1981 · cited 10,253x
- A National Customer Satisfaction Barometer: The Swedish Experience
· 1992 · cited 7,687x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,587x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1929-01-28 ) January 28, 1929, Stockholm , Sweden
- Died
- July 18, 2022 (2022-07-18) (aged 93), New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Latin School of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Yale University
- Known for
- Sculpture
- Notable work
- List of public art by Oldenburg and van Bruggen
- Movement
- Pop art avant-garde
- Spouses
- Patty Mucha ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1970 ) Coosje van Bruggen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 ; died 2009 )
- Partner
- Hannah Wilke (1969–1977)
- Relatives
- Richard Oldenburg (brother)
- Awards
- Wolf Prize in Arts – Sculpture, 1989 , Rolf Schock Prize – Visual arts, 1995 , National Medal of Arts , 2000
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 January 1929
- Died
- 18 July 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Stockholm
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Participant in
- documenta 7
- Field of work
- performance art
- Genre
- public art
Article
Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) 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 City.
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