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Coosje van Bruggen (Jacoba Wilhelmina Hendrika van Bruggen) was born on 6 June, 1942 in Groningen, Netherlands, is a Dutch and American sculptor and painter. Discover Coosje van Bruggen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Jacoba Wilhelmina Hendrika van Bruggen
Occupation N/A
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 6 June 1942
Birthday 6 June
Birthplace Groningen, Netherlands
Date of death 2009
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality American

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Her husband is Paul Kapteyn Claes Oldenburg (m. 1977)

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1942

Coosje van Bruggen (June 6, 1942 – January 10, 2009) was a Dutch-born American sculptor, art historian, and critic.

She collaborated extensively with her husband, Claes Oldenburg.

Born to a physician in Groningen, van Bruggen studied history of art at the University of Groningen.

1967

From 1967 to 1971, she worked at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Van Bruggen married her first husband Paul Kapteyn, they had two children, Maartje Kapteyn and Paulus Kapteyn.

In Amsterdam she worked with environmental artists like Doug Wheeler, Larry Bell, and the members of the Dutch avant-garde.

1976

Until 1976, van Bruggen taught at the Academy for Art and Industries in Enschede.

She began working with her new husband, sculptor Claes Oldenburg, in 1976.

Her first work with Oldenburg came when she helped him install his 41-foot Trowel I on the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.

1977

She married her second husband, Claes Oldenburg, in 1977 and moved to New York the following year.

1980

Since the early 1980s van Bruggen worked as an independent critic and curator.

1981

Together Oldenburg and van Bruggen produced three decades of monumental sculpture that van Bruggen would call Large-Scale Projects, with their first piece created as a team being Flashlight (1981), a huge outdoor sculpture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In Los Angeles, Collar and Bow - a 65-foot metal and fiberglass sculpture in the shape of a man's dress shirt collar and bow tie, designed for a spot outside Walt Disney Concert Hall was stalled and eventually canceled due to technical problems and escalating costs.

1983

She contributed articles to Artforum magazine from 1983 to 1988, and served as senior critic in the sculpture department at Yale University School of Art in 1996–97.

1985

In 1985 they collaborated on Il Corso del Coltello (“The Course of the Knife”), a performance piece in Venice, Italy, with the architect Frank Gehry, whom van Bruggen had met in 1982 when she was on the selection committee for documenta 7 in Kassel.

Van Bruggen was the author of scholarly books and essays on the work of major contemporary artists including Gerhard Richter (1985), John Baldessari (1990), Bruce Nauman (1991), and Hanne Darboven (1991).

She also wrote a monograph on architect Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

1988

In 1988, her work with Oldenburg entitled Spoonbridge and Cherry was commissioned by the Walker Art Center.

It became a permanent fixture of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as an iconic image of the city of Minneapolis.

1992

Van Bruggen and Oldenburg were based in New York for many years, but they also lived and worked for extensive periods in Los Angeles and, since 1992, at Château de la Borde in Beaumont-sur-Dême, in the Loire Valley of France.

1993

In 1993 she became a United States citizen.

1994

Together with Oldenburg, van Bruggen received numerous awards including the Distinction in Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York (1994); Nathaniel S. Saltonstall Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1996); Partners in Education Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002); the Medal Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2004) and honorary degrees from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California (1996); University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, England (1999); Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2005); and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan (2005).

The estate of van Bruggen is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York.

2002

One U.S. installation the pair collaborated on is the fiberglass and steel Cupid's Span, which was commissioned by GAP founders Donald and Doris F. Fisher, and installed in the newly built Rincon Park along the Embarcadero in San Francisco in 2002.

In 2021, Pace Gallery presented an exhibition of van Bruggen's collaborative work with Claes Oldenburg spanning the 1980s to the late 2000s.

2009

Their final joint work, fabricated in Turin, Italy and titled Tumbling Tacks (2009), was designed for the Kistefos Sculpture Park in the countryside north of Oslo.

At her instigation, the couple branched out into indoor installation and performance art.

After a long battle with breast cancer, van Bruggen died at her residence in Los Angeles in 2009, aged 66.