Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg ( Stockholm , January 28 1929 ) is a Swedish - American sculptor , painter and graphic artist .



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*1 Life and work  ==Life and Work [  edit ] == Oldenburg was born in Stockholm but moved as a child to the United States. Initially he lived in New York and Rye . In 1936 he moved to Chicago . He studied from 1946 to 1950 at the Yale School of Art and between 1953 and 1956 at the Art Institute of Chicago . In September 1956 he settled permanently in New York. In 1963 he temporarily lived in Los Angeles . Since 1976 he collaborates with the Dutch / American artist Coosje van Bruggen. They married in 1977 . Together they made more than forty works for public spaces. His wife died on January 10, 2009 from the effects of breast cancer.
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 * 3   Work in public collections (selection)

Oldenburg is best known for his works of art in public space, which he often displays large versions of everyday objects, such as a screw, a clothespin, a toothbrush, and so on. Another theme in his work are the so-called soft sculptures, objects that are normally hard in soft, flexible materials. Due to the size of its objects creates an alienating and simultaneously dynamic influence in and around the sculpture. Only after 1970 makes Oldenburg (from 1976 along with Van Bruggen) sculptures actually.

Binoculars Entrance, Los AngelesOldenburg not only makes free-standing sculptures; Now and then he is also working on projects in architecture. A good example is the headquarters of the advertising agency Chiat \ Day which is found in the Venice district of Los Angeles, California : the main entrance is a giant black binoculars.

I trowel or trowel (1971-1976) in the Sculpture Park of the Kröller-Müller Museum (one of the first large-scale work in Europe) announced Oldenburg, commissioned by the Foundation Sonsbeek in Arnhem, and the work moved to Otterlo. His Bow Screw (Screw Arch) was in 1977 also part of its draft proposal for a new Willemsbrug in Rotterdam . [1]

Trowel II is located in the sculpture Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase ( Westchester County ) in the state ofNew York .

His works belong to the pop art of whatever movement he became a distinguished representative.