Claes Oldenburg
1929–2022
Introduction
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.
Wikidata identifier
Q156731
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Introduction
Claes Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University and the Art Institute of Chicago. He quickly became involved in performance art after moving to New York and meeting many performance artists. By 1959, he had created drawings and collages of common objects and renderings of grotesque human figures. He created The Store in his studio, a performance space that re-created a neighborhood of shops that displayed goods that were made of plaster. He emerged as a leading Pop artist, combining consumer culture into his own sculptures. Oldenburg married artist Coosje van Bruggen in 1977. The two collaborated on many large-scale projects together and with architect Frank O. Gehry in the mid-1970s and early 1990s.
Country of birth
Sweden
Roles
Artist, painter, performance artist, sculptor, writer
ULAN identifier
500029735
Names
Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg, Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed March 30, 2024.
123 works
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Untitled (Fire Plug)
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Untitled (Kassel)
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Untitled (Geometric)
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Untitled (Kneeling Building)
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Untitled (Sneaker Lace)
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Untitled (Body Buildings)
1968 -
Untitled (City as Alphabet)
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Untitled (Drum Set)
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Untitled (Tar Pits)
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Design for a Police Building Using the Word "POLICE"
1968 -
Giant Fireplug Sited in the Civic Center, Chicago
1968 -
Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package
1968 -
Proposal for a Skyscraper in the Form of a Chicago Fireplug
1968 -
Proposal for a Tomb in the Form of a Giant Punching Bag - with Obelisk
1968 -
Proposed Colossal Monument for the End of the Navy Pier, Chicago: Fireplug - Two Views
1968 -
Smoke Studies During the Burning of Chicago
1968 -
Study of a Chicago Fireplug, Upside Down
1968 -
Study of a Nose
1968 -
The Letters "L" and "O" in Landscape
1968 -
Two Fagends Together, I
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Two Fagends Together, II
1968 -
On view
Floor 7Giant Fagends
1967 -
Drainpipe - Dream State
1967 -
Study for a Soft Sculpture in the Form of a Giant Lipstick
1967 -
Base of a Colossal Drainpipe Monument, Toronto, with Waterfall
1967 -
Study for a Memorial to Clarence Darrow in the Lagoon of Jackson Park, Chicago: Rising Typewriter - Showing Stages
1967 -
Notebook Page: Colossal Boots at the End of Navy Pier, Chicago
1967 -
Nude with Electric Plug
1967 -
Proposal for a Skyscraper in the Form of a Basketball Backstop with Ball in Net
1967 -
Proposed Colossal Monument for End of Navy Pier, Chicago: Bed-Table Lamp
1967
123 works