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Claes Oldenburg
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American sculptor and printmaker (1929–2022)
OverviewAI-generated
Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022) was a male sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and designer associated with the pop art movement. He held citizenship in both Sweden and the United States and was educated at Yale University. Oldenburg worked in New York City, Rye, Oslo, and Chicago, creating figurative and public art that included sculpture, painting, drawing, and engraving. He was married to Coosje van Bruggen and spoke English and Swedish.
His notable works include *The soft screw*, *Il corso del coltello*, *New work by Claes Oldenburg*, *A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages*, and *Store Days*. Oldenburg received the National Medal of Arts and the Wolf Prize in Arts. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been featured in documenta 4, 5, and 7, and is held in collections such as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 18 July 2022
- Works
- 85
Top works
- The soft screw
- Il corso del coltello
- New work by Claes Oldenburg
- A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages
- Store Days
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- New York
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 54
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Claes+Oldenburg">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 63,480x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 21,560x
- Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error: Algebra and Statistics
· 1981 · cited 10,510x
- A National Customer Satisfaction Barometer: The Swedish Experience
· 1992 · cited 7,702x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
via Crossref · CC0
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- Movement
- pop art
- Image
- Museum Ludwig - Pressekonferenz - Claes Oldenburg-3979.jpg
- Work location
- Chatte
- Represented by
- Linda
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- Commons category
- Claes Oldenburg
- date of birth
- 1929-01-28
- Commons Creator page
- Claes Oldenburg
- Commons gallery
- Claes Oldenburg
- copyright representative
- Claes Oldenburg
- ethnic group
- Swedes
- partner in business or sport
- Coosje van Bruggen
- name in native language
- Claes Oldenburg
- date of death
- 2022-07-18
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Claes Oldenburg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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