He has now died at the age of 93.<\/p>\n
The pop art artist Claes Oldenburg is dead. He died in New York at the age of 93, said a spokeswoman for the Pace gallery, which has represented the artist since 1960, the dpa news agency. The artist recently recovered from a fall in his studio in SoHo, where he also lived.<\/p>\n
“I was honored to have a great friendship with one of the most radical artists of the 20th century,” gallery founder Arne Glimcher was quoted as saying. “He changed the nature of sculpture from hard to soft and his impact on the art world is still visible today.”<\/p>\n
Oldenburg had raised the Pop Art of the 1960s, which primarily took place in prints and paintings, to sculpture and placed consumer objects in a new context in a humorous way. Along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, he was one of the greatest representatives of the movement.<\/p>\n
Claes Thure Oldenburg was born in Stockholm in 1929, a few years later the family moved to the USA. He studied at Yale and tried his hand as a reporter at the City News Bureau in Chicago, but then attended the Art Institute of Chicago and illustrated for magazines.<\/p>\n
After moving to New York in 1953, he experimented with papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 and plaster in his first shows.<\/p>\n
The art world received him enthusiastically – also in Germany. In Kassel, the multiple documenta artist hewed a twelve meter high pickaxe into the river Fulda. In Frankfurt it was a tie almost as high, in M\u00fcnster billiard balls, in Cologne an ice cream cone and in Freiburg a water tap with a hose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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