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Jul 18, 2022 · NEW YORK (AP) — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93. Oldenburg died Monday morning in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg.
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.
Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City. Early life and education [ edit ] Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm , [3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg [4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. [5]
Jul 18, 2022 · Claes Oldenburg, the Swedish-born American Pop artist known for his monumental sculptures of everyday objects, died on Monday at his home and studio in the SoHo section of Manhattan. He was 93.
Oct 16, 2017 · IT SEEMS SOMEHOW fitting that the only permanent public artwork in New York City by Claes Oldenburg — the undisputed master of Brobdingnagian outdoor sculpture and a New Yorker for more...
Aug 10, 2022 · Claes Oldenburg NA (1929 - 2022) Published on. August 10, 2022. The National Academy of Design celebrates the life of Claes Oldenburg, who was elected as a National Academician in 1999. Born in 1929 in Stockholm, Oldenburg’s father was a diplomat, and the family lived in the United States and Norway before settling in Chicago in 1936.
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Claes Oldenburg came to New York City from his hometown of Chicago in 1956, when he was twenty-seven years old. Initially aiming to make his mark as a painter, by 1960 he had changed his mind: the way to upend the art of his time was through sculpture—sculpture of a sort never seen before. The results are some of the most audacious and ...
