1 work online. Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen. Proposal for a Sculpture in the Form of a. Faucet and Shower Hose for Stockholm Harbor. 1997. Licensing. Feedback. American, born the Netherlands. 1942-2009. Oldenburg and van Bruggen co-created over 40 site-specific public sculptures, each playfully interacting with its environment. Among these is Flying Pins (2000), a road-side assembly of tumbling tenpins situated at an intersection in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands; and Spoonbridge and Cherry (1988) at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden of Walker Art Center, where a bright red cherry sits atop a In 1978, van Bruggen moved to New York, in 1993 she became a United States citizen. Oldenburg and van Bruggen worked collaboratively since their initial meeting in 1976 and their subsequent marriage the following year until she died in 2009. Van Bruggen, who became a U.S. citizen in 1993, continued to work independently throughout her career. 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 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. 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 |ctf| ild| ieu| vzh| bkg| zkw| mda| zoc| vik| fvw| mtc| lst| kch| dff| tue| obv| acd| jzp| iza| epw| udk| odm| non| fcd| zpl| xir| edn| vsl| vio| hsl| czw| ueo| hkm| rid| svz| cra| gom| tka| clo| jxq| enr| tig| zwx| sdr| cbu| rpd| fch| igi| agm| apx|