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Oldenburg and his second wife, Coosje van Bruggen, met in 1970 when Oldenburg's first major retrospective traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where van Bruggen was a curator. The couple were married in 1977.
Until 1976, van Bruggen taught at the Academy for Art and Industries in Enschede. She married her second husband, Claes Oldenburg, in 1977 and moved to New York the following year. In 1993 she became a United States citizen.
Courtesy Pace Gallery. Married in 1977, they began working together on drawings, installations, and performances, with Coosje's name being included on their work from 1981. Van Bruggen referenced Italo Calvino's 'field of analogies, symmetries, confrontations' to describe their practice as 'a unity of opposites' 2.
In 1977 Oldenburg married Coosje van Bruggen, his second wife. The couple began to collaborate on commissions, and from 1981 her signature also appeared on their work. They worked with architect Frank Gehry on the Main Street Project (1975–84) in Venice, California, and Camp Good Times (1984–85) in the Santa Monica Mountains .
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Jul 18, 2022 · Oldenburg married Dutch art historian, Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) in 1977, and collaborated with her on his colossal, polychrome outdoor sculptures from late 1976 until her death in 2009.
- American
- January 28, 1929
- Stockholm, Sweden
- July 18, 2022
Jul 19, 2022 · I met Claes about 20 years ago, when Paula Cooper asked whether I would edit an artist’s book that she wanted to publish with Claes and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen. As I was living in Switzerland, Paula suggested a meeting in their home in France, in the village of Beaumont-sur-Dême, located about 35 kilometers north of the city of Tours.
Jan 13, 2009 · Coosje van Bruggen, a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, died on...
