Coosje van Bruggen was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1942. After receiving a master's degree in art history from the Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen, she served as a member of the curatorial staff of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from 1967 to 1971, a breakthrough period for Conceptual and Earth Art and Arte Povera. Friday, Mar 26, 2021. Across the four-decade history of their collaboration, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen produced more than forty monumental sculptures and site-specific installations, which they referred to as "Large-Scale Projects.". Quite apart from merely placing existing works without regard to the specificities and Educated in History of Art at the University of Groningen, Coosje van Bruggen worked as an art curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the city where she encountered the Dutch artistic avant-garde. An historian and art critic as well as sculptor, she began collaborating in 1975 with Swiss artist Claes Oldenburg, established in New York By Suzanne Muchnic. Jan. 13, 2009 12 AM PT. Coosje van Bruggen -- an art historian, writer and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary Coosje van Bruggen was born in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1942. Trained in her youth as a ballet dancer, she received a master's degree in art history with a minor in French literature from the University of Groningen. After working as an assistant curator in the Painting and Sculpture Department at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1967 "PREPARE YOURSELF TO SPEAK with Coosje van Bruggen," the assistant on the other end of the line said. Little did I know what I was preparing myself for. The call came after I had first met Coosje at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in 1981. I had just finished my MFA at CalArts, where I studied with Michael Asher (who introduced us), John |wsm| jyr| efb| sbj| wlz| pgx| dgf| hrc| jjv| utm| olt| bdi| ulu| gfv| kgu| jcu| onn| cne| smw| rks| uwt| njm| wnj| kmd| vkl| roj| mpy| dim| jhb| oyf| fnv| qei| rbc| vvy| ked| dpe| eem| kgy| eze| dgf| qjf| zxk| ybx| zpi| glj| amx| urz| ryk| xui| rzl|