Vigeland, Gustave

(4/11/1869 Mandal-1943 Oslo) (Norway)

   Sculptor and printmaker. Apprenticed to wood-carver/sculptor T. Fladmoe and attended Kongelige Teneskole. Best known for his monumental public art work in Frogner Park, Oslo which depicts all human experience from birth to death, including the sexual aspects of life.

   Source: J.-R. Arnaud, "Eros and Thanatos," Cimaise 28, 151 (April-June 1981): pp. 19-26; Benezit, vol. 14: pp. 301 -302; Frithjof Bringager, "Den erotiske faun: Gustav Vigeland og antikken," Kunst og Kultur 77, 93 (1994): pp. 148-170; Frithjof Bringager, "Transformations of love: mythos and eros in Vigeland's art," in Eros in the art of Gustav Vigeland, ed. by G. Dreyer (1996): pp. 8-26; DoA vol. 32: 497-98; Grondahl Dreyer, Eros i Gustav Vieglands kunst /Eros in the art of Gustav Vigeland (Oslo: Dreyers Forlag, 1996); Svein Haugsgjerd, "Eroticism in Gustav Vigeland's art: a commentary on dreams and drawings 1896-1901," in Eros in the art ofGustav Vigeland, ed. by G. Dreyer (Oslo: Dreyers Forlag, 1996): pp. 74-94; Jan Kokkin, "The erotic art of Gustav Vigeland in a European perspective," in Eros in the art of Gustav Vigeland, ed. by G. Dreyer (Oslo: Dreyers Forlag, 1996): pp. 28-48; ThB xxxiv 1940: p. 348.