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ID: 500029735 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029735			Record Type: Person

Oldenburg, Claes (American sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, 1929-2022, born in Sweden)

Note: 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.

Names:
	Oldenburg, Claes (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Oldenburg, Claes (Dutch-P,NA)
	Claes Oldenburg (V,display)
	Oldenburg, Claes Thure (V)
	Claes Thure Oldenburg (V)
	Oldenberg, Ḳlaʼes (U)
	אולדנבורג, קלאס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Swedish
	Scandinavian

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	sculptor
	draftsman
	printmaker
	performance artist
	writer
	painter

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Stockholm (Stockholm county, Sweden) (inhabited place) Died: Manhattan (New York City, New York state, United States) (borough)

Events:

naturalization:

1953 United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	Gehry, Frank mid 1970s and 1990s
................................	(American architect, born 1929 in Canada) [500010962]

spouse of ....	Bruggen, Coosje van spouse and collaborator
................	(Dutch sculptor and writer, 1942-2009, active in the United States, ) [500032593]

spouse of ....	Mucha, Patty 1960-1970
................	(American poet and performance artist, born 1935) [500355446]

teacher of ....	Head, Tim
..................	(British painter and photographer, born 1946) [500028044]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

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Oldenburg, Claes (I)

Biographies:

(American sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, 1929-2022, born in Sweden) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, born 1929) ..... [AVERY]
(American sculptor, 1929-) ..... [RKD]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Sweden 1929) ..... [MoMA]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Swedish sculptor, born 1929) ..... [IMJ]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, born 1929) ..... [GRL]
(American sculptor) ..... [Grove Art]
(American artist, 1929-) ..... [AVERY]
(American sculptor, born 1929) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, born 1929) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, b.1929) ..... [WCI]
(American sculptor, b.1929) ..... [GRLPA]
(American sculptor, b.1929) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 1929-) ..... [WCP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

אולדנבורג, קלאס ........	[IMJ]
..............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Claes Oldenburg ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 940004
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Claes Thure Oldenburg ........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
...........................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Oldenberg, Ḳlaʼes ........	[GRL]
...................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80037028

Oldenburg, Claes ........	[AVERY Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred]
..................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..................................	Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
..................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164; 980063
..................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..................................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 3 September 2003
..................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80037028
..................................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 60410

Oldenburg, Claes Thure ........	[BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art, RKD, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.............................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.............................................	RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
.............................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 60410
.............................................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 76
	..........	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

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