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Jul 18, 2022 · Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden, son of a diplomat. But young Claes (pronounced klahs) spent much of his childhood in Chicago, where his father served as Swedish consul general for ...
Claes Oldenburg, an American born in Sweden in 1929, was a genuine installation artist. Contemporary critics have described his early work as pop-surrealist or pop-expressionist. Raised partly in Scandinavia and partly in the United States, he grew up with the characteristics and temperaments of the harsh and melancholic Sweden and the ...
Jul 19, 2022 · Claes Oldenburg holds one of his sculptures, a four-foot ice cream cone, at his studio in Greenwich Village, circa 1965. Getty Images. Of all the major American Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was ...
Jul 18, 2022 · Pop artist Claes Oldenburg has died. He was 93. The Sweden-born Oldenburg studied at Yale and the Art Institute of Chicago and gained his initial fame in performance art. But Oldenburg’s lasting ...
Oldenburg/van Bruggen, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, July 11–31, 2002. Claes Oldenburg Drawings, 1959–1977(on view in the Ames Gallery) and Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen Drawings, 1992–1998(on view in the Ehrenkranz Gallery), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 7–September 15, 2002.
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.
Mar 13, 2020 · Claes Oldenburg; Flying Pizza, from New York Ten, 1964, published 1965 Claes Oldenburg; Woman Figure with Medusa Ornaments, 1967 Claes Oldenburg; Cube Tap (Plug), 1966 Claes Oldenburg; Chicago Stuffed with Numbers, 1976–77 Claes Oldenburg; Spoon Pier, 1975 Claes Oldenburg; Striding Figure, from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness, 1971 Claes ...
