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Coosje van Bruggen (b. 1942, Groningen, The Netherlands, d. 2009, Los Angeles) was a sculptor, art historian, and critic who collaborated extensively with her husband, the artist Claes Oldenburg. Throughout her career, van Bruggen held positions at various institutions including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Sonsbeek 71, Artforum; and the Yale University School of Art. She also authored numerous art historical books. Van Bruggen’s first collaboration with Oldenburg was in 1976, when Trowel I, originally shown at Sonsbeek 71, was rebuilt and relocated to the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. In 1978, van Bruggen moved to New York, where she continued to work with Oldenburg. Together, the pair executed more than forty large-scale projects, which have been sited in various urban surroundings in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929, Stockholm, d. 2022, New York) moved to New York City in 1956, where he established himself as a pivotal figure in American art. Oldenburg’s initial interes

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Coosje van Bruggen — an art historian, writer and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monuments around the world. Born to a physician in Groningen, van Bruggen studied history of art at the University of Groningen. From 1967 to 1971, she worked at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. There she worked with environmental artists like Doug Wheeler, Larry Bell, and the members of the Dutch avant-garde. Until 1976, van Bruggen taught at the Academy for Art and Industries in Enschede. 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. She helped select artists for Documenta 7, the 1982 edition of a prestigious international contemporary art exhibition; contributed articles

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Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009)

Coosje van Bruggen, an art historian, writer, and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monuments around the world, died of breast cancer Saturday January 10 at her Los Angeles residence, the Los Angeles Times’s Suzanne Muchnic reports. She was sixty-six.

Van Bruggen was the author of scholarly books and essays on the work of major contemporary artists including John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and Gerhard Richter. She also wrote a monograph on Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But she is perhaps best known for collaborations with Oldenburg. Cologne has its upside-down ice-cream cone; San Francisco, its bow and arrow; Denver, its dustpan and broom.

Born in Groningen, the Netherlands, on June 6, 1942, and educated there, van Bruggen got her professional start as a curator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede. Her first work with Oldenburg came in 1976, when she helped him install his forty