Claes Oldenburg

  • Birth

    Claes Oldenburg is Born in Stockholm, Sweden
  • World War II

    World War II starts when Claes is young
  • Gaining Citizenship

    He becomes an American Citizen
  • College

    Went to Yale to study art
  • Period: to

    Chicago

    He went to the art Institute in Chicago and further learned art
  • Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War breaks out
  • New York Clerk

    He worked in Art libraries and learned about art by looking at it and observing the works
  • Showing off Sculptures

    Started his own art show where his sculptures were shown to many people
  • Large Sculptures

    He started building large scale projects like lipstick and scissors
  • Marriage

    Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen get married
  • Coosje and Claes Cooperation

    They created the spoon bridge and cherry
  • Wife's Death

    Coosje van Bruggen dies and then Claes lives in an apartment in New York