Claes Oldenburg

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Claes Oldenburg, 2012

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929 in Stockholm as Claes Thure Oldenburg ) is one of the most important representatives of American Pop Art , alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein . He became particularly well known for his sculptures made from simple materials or depicting everyday objects. Oldenburg has worked with the Dutch artist Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009) since 1976 ; they had been married since 1977.

life and work

Sculpture Free Stamp , Cleveland
Sculpture Giant Pool Balls
(Münster, 1977)
Artwork garden hose with tap in Freiburg im Breisgau
Sculpture pickaxe , documenta 7

Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm as the son of a Swedish diplomat. From 1930 to 1933 he grew up in New York and in Rye , New York, then in Oslo until 1936, and in Chicago from 1936 to 1946 , where Oldenburg graduated from the Latin School of Chicago. From 1946 to 1950 he studied art and English literature at Yale University in New Haven and attended a course at the Art Institute in Chicago until 1954 . During his studies he worked as a journalist and graphic artist. 1953 followed his first exhibition with satirical drawings. His first pictures were strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism , but remained largely representational. In 1956 he moved to New York City, where he made the acquaintance of happening artists such as Allan Kaprow , Jim Dine , Red Grooms , Lucas Samaras and George Segal , who influenced his enthusiasm for collages and objects.

From 1958 onwards, Oldenburg produced assemblages from paper mache and various waste products (very often with a selection of different fabrics), which he processed in a garish color and alienation. In 1958 and 1959 he made drawings on the subject of The Street and the first sculptures , in 1963 the first soft sculptures and vinyl sculptures. From 1965 Claes Oldenburg concentrated on colossal objects, in which he alienated everyday objects through monumentalization, and the first drafts for "Giant Objects". Together with Jim Dine , Marc Ratliff and Tom Wesselmann , he founded the Judson Gallery of the Judson Memorial Church in 1959 .

In 1982 he made a 12 meter high pickaxe for Documenta 7 in Kassel .

The sculpture Inverted Collar and Tie, developed jointly with Coosje van Bruggen in Frankfurt am Main at the foot of the 208-meter-high skyscraper Westendstrasse 1, is also known . The overdimensioned tie, which is more than ten meters high and “flutters” upwards, is a parody of the correctly dressed office workers who work in the high-rise.

Oldenburg lives in New York .

The Cologne Museum Ludwig was possibly showing the early works of Oldenburg for the last time in 2012. The materials have not survived the aging process unscathed and are no longer easily transportable.

Exhibitions (selection)

Collections (selection)

Works (selection)

Work of art Plantoir in the Serralves Museum , Porto
  • 1961: Plate Of Meat , 95 × 138 cm
  • 1962: Green Ladies' Shoes , 42.5 × 40.5 × 30 cm
  • 1963: Cheese Cake From “Javatime” , 5 × 8.5 × 22 cm
  • 1965: Washstand - Hard Model , 123 × 91.5 × 74.5 cm
  • 1966: Soft Swedish giant light switch Ø 130 cm
  • 1968: London Knees, 42 × 40 × 20 cm
  • 1969: Bedroom Ensemble Replica in the Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1981: Tube Supported by its Content , Galerie Paula Cooper, New York City, Art Basel 2013.
  • 1981: Binoculars Building , formerly Chiat / Day Building in Venice , California.
  • 1982: Pickaxe , Kassel, Fuldaufer.
  • 1994: Shuttlecocks , Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City.
  • 1996: Houseball , Berlin.
  • 2001: Plantoir , Museu Serralves , Porto
  • 2009: Tumbling Tacks , Kistefos-Museet, Kistefos.
  • 2011: Paint Torch , Philadelphia.

Awards

literature

Movie

Web links

Commons : Claes Oldenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claes Oldenburg. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, accessed September 22, 2017 .
  2. ^ Last chance for bitter food in the Cologne Museum Ludwig , Deutschlandfunk from June 23, 2012
  3. ↑ Really fat . When art became rebellious: An encounter with Claes Oldenburg, the granddad of Pop Art. His early work can now be seen in Vienna and Cologne. In: DIE ZEIT, February 2, 2012 No. 06 .
  4. ^ Claes Oldenburg. The sixties. Museum Ludwig Cologne, accessed on September 22, 2017 .
  5. ^ Exhibition history. MoMA New York, accessed September 22, 2017 (English, list of exhibitions).
  6. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oldenburg, Claes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldenburg, Claes Thure (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Pop Art artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden