Art should be humorous: Claes Oldenburg died

With his colossal sculptures in urban space, Claes Oldenburg became one of the best-known representatives of American Pop Art. He has now died at the age of 93.

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With him, everything was always “bigger than life”. A work that was as provocative as it was ambivalent, which Claes Oldenburg created on behalf of architecture students and without the permission of the Yale University administration, marked the beginning of the development of his monumental sculptures.

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