Gustav Vigeland
From Philosopedia
Vigeland, Gustav (1869–1943)
Vigeland is a Norwegian sculptor whose nude figures in Oslo’s Frogner Park, according to Corliss Lamont, symbolize “the life and aspirations of man.”
The park contains tree groups, reliefs, thirty-six large granite groups in twelve rows radiating from a column more than fifty-five feet tall, containing 121 figures in gray granite.
Vigeland is author of The Condition of Man.
