Claes Oldenburg
- Introduction
- Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is 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 lives and works in New York.
- Wikidata
- Q156731
- 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.
- Nationalities
- American, Swedish, Scandinavian
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Performance Artist, Sculptor
- Names
- Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg, Ḳlaʼes Oldenberg
- Ulan
- 500029735
Exhibitions
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408: Everyday Encounters
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury
Through Feb 6
MoMA
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412: From Soup Cans to Flying Saucers
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 20, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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407: Frank O’Hara, Lunchtime Poet
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Sep 16, 2018–Feb 3, 2019
MoMA
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Claes Oldenburg has
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Claes Oldenburg Self Portrait 1958
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Claes Oldenburg "Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun 1959
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Claes Oldenburg Two Heads with Speech 1959
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Claes Oldenburg New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture 1960
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Claes Oldenburg Flag to Fold in the Pocket 1960
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Claes Oldenburg Empire Sign - With M and I Deleted 1960
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Claes Oldenburg Red Tights with Fragment 9 April 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Table Top with Objects 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Store Poster 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Pastry Case 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Store Poster, Torn Out Letters, Newspaper. Pie, Cup Cakes and Hot Dog 1961
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Claes Oldenburg The Store 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Legs 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Ray Gun Poster 1961
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Claes Oldenburg Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers) 1962
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Claes Oldenburg Hamburger 1962
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Claes Oldenburg Orpheum Sign (plate 13) from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America) 1962, published 1964
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Claes Oldenburg Pastry Case, I 1961-62
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Claes Oldenburg Floor Cake 1962
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Claes Oldenburg Floor Cone 1962
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Claes Oldenburg A Sock and 15 Cents (Studies for Store Objects) 1961, dated 1962
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Claes Oldenburg Striding Figure (Final study for announcement of a dance concert by the Aileen Passloff Dance Company) 1962
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Heinz Gappmayr, Ruth Krauss, Angus MacLise, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dieter Roth V TRE 1963
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Various Artists, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Öyvind Fahlström, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Alfred Jensen, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Kiki (Kiki O. K.) Kogelnik, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Antonio Saura, Kimber Smith, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Walasse Ting, Bram van Velde, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann 1¢ Life 1963–64, published 1964
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Claes Oldenburg Double page headpiece (pages 136 and 137) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Claes Oldenburg Double page plate (pages 172 and 173) from 1¢ Life 1964
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George Brecht, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Stephen Durkee, Lette Eisenhauer, Stanley Fisher, Sam Goodman, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Boris Lurie, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Robert Watts, Robert Whitman, Various Artists The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America) 1962–64, published 1964
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Claes Oldenburg Flying Pizza 1964
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Various Artists, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Mon Levinson, Robert Kulicke, Nicholas Krushenick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Richard Anuszkiewicz New York Ten 1964–65, published 1965
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Claes Oldenburg Flying Pizza from New York Ten 1964, published 1965
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Claes Oldenburg The Paris Review 1965
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Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monument for 42nd Street: Banana 1965
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Claes Oldenburg Proposed Monument for the Intersection of Canal Street and Broadway, N.Y.C. -- Block of Concrete with the Names of War Heroes 1965
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Claes Oldenburg Clinical Study, towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comics Style 1965
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Claes Oldenburg Tea Bag from Four on Plexiglas 1965, published 1966
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Various Artists, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann 7 Objects in a Box 1965–66, published 1966
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Claes Oldenburg Baked Potato from 7 Objects in a Box 1966
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Claes Oldenburg Knäckebröd 1966
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Claes Oldenburg Wedding Souvenir 1966
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Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monument to Replace Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square--Gearshift in Motion 1966
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Claes Oldenburg False Food Selection 1966
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Claes Oldenburg Giant Soft Fan 1966-67
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Various Artists, Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jane Wilson Preparatory drawings for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Claes Oldenburg Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Claes Oldenburg Dropped Cup of Coffee: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara 1967
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Claes Oldenburg Stripper with Battleship: Preliminary study for "Image of the Buddha Preaching" by Frank O'Hara 1967
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Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jane Wilson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Various Artists In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Claes Oldenburg In-text plate (folios 77 verso and 78 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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