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Vigeland Museum, south of Frogner Park. The Vigeland Museum (Norwegian: Vigelandmuseet) is a museum dedicated to Gustav Vigeland in Frogner, Oslo. It is located outside Frogner Park, which includes the Vigeland installation with sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. The museum is part of Oslo municipality's cultural department.
Gustav Vigeland (11 April 1869 – 12 March 1943), born as Adolf Gustav Thorsen, was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity. He is most associated with the Vigeland installation (Vigelandsanlegget) in Frogner Park, Oslo.
It includes the manor house which is the seat of Oslo Museum, the nearby Henriette Wegner Pavilion, the Vigeland installation of sculptures (Norwegian: Vigelandsanlegget) created by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, Frogner Baths, Frogner stadion, Frognerparken Café, the restaurant Herregårdskroen and the largest collection of roses in the country ...
The Angry Boy (Norwegian: Sinnataggen) is a sculpture in the Vigeland installation in Frogner Park, Oslo. It depicts a small, angry boy and is considered Gustav Vigeland's most famous sculpture. The sculpture, cast in bronze, was likely modeled in 1928 and installed as one of 58 sculptures on the "Bridge" in the sculpture park in 1940.
The Sundial (Norwegian: Soluret) is a sculpture that is part of the Vigeland installation in Frogner Park in Oslo, created by Gustav Vigeland. It is a sundial that stands on a pedestal with granite reliefs between the Monolith and the Wheel of Life. The sundial dates back to around 1930. [1]
The Vigeland Museum, located in Frogner Park where the artist Gustav Vigeland lived and worked for nearly two decades. [ citation needed ] . It is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist, and is one of Norway's most popular tourist attractions.
Part of Frogner Park (2016). The private garden surrounding the manor house was historically much smaller. After Oslo municipality acquired the estate, much of the remaining agricultural land was turned into a public park, the Frogner Park, with Gustav Vigeland's sculpture arrangement (Vigelandsanlegget or the Vigeland installation) erected in the centre from 1928 to 1943.
Stępnik, Małgorzata; "Modernist sculpture parks and their ideological contexts – on the basis of the oeuvres by Gustav Vigeland, Bernhard Hoetger and Einar Jónsson," The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, No 47 (4/2017), pp. 143–169. e-ISSN 2353-723X / p-ISSN 1643-1243