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Claes Oldenburg Biography
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1929 |
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Born: in Stockholm, Sweden
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1946 - 1950 |
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Attended Yale University, New Haven, CT
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1953 |
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Attended the Oxbow Summer School of Painting in Saugatuck, MI
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1950 - 1954 |
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Attended Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1956 |
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Moved to New York City in 1956
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1977 |
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Married Coosje van Bruggen
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Oldenburg and van Bruggen currently live and work in downtown Manhattan, in California, and on a centuries-old estate in the Loire Valley, France.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (group)
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2008
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The Hands of Art, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
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2007
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Sculputre By the Way, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen: Double Vision, Waddington Galleries, London, England
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2006
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Group Show, The Armory Show at Piers 90 and 92, New York, NY
Sculpture By the Way, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivolli, Turin, Italy
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2005
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Corridor Pin, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Balzac, Petanque, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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2004
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Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen on the Roof
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1996
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Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany
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1989
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IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, Sept. 15 - Nov. 15.
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1988
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Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France, Feb. 15 - Apr. 9.
Claes Oldenburg: Tekeningen / Dessins. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 27 - Dec. 30.
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1977
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Claes Oldenburg: Tegninger fra 1954 til 1974, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, January 15 - February 13.
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1976
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Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, August 27 - September 26.
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, January 14 - February 29.
Kunstverein im Hamburg, April 3 - May 16.
Claes Oldenburg: Zeichnungen, Objekte, Filme, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, May 27 - August 22.
Claes Oldenburg: Unbekannte Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Gouachen 1954-1974, Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, November 16 - January 4.
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1975
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Nationalgalerie Berlin, September 17 - October 26.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, July 17 - August 31.
Claes Oldenburg, Zeichnungen, Kunstmuseum Basel, May 10 - July 6.
Claes Oldenburg: Zeichnungen-Aquarellen-Collagen, 1954-1974. Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany. March 1 - April 20.
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1969
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Claes Oldenburg, retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1962
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"New Realists" Exhibition, which defined the Pop Art Movement, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
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1959
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Claes Oldenburg, exhibit of drawings and sculpture at the Judson Gallery, New York, NY
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1958
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Claes Oldenburg, Red Grooms' City Gallery, New York, NY
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| Links to further information |
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