Time of year, Frogner Park is in Oslo’s namesake borough and is a joy for the installations by 20th-century sculptor Gustav Vigeland.
There are 212 sculptures in total, in bronze and granite from Iddefjord.
Vigeland’s works are Realist and their subjects are bizarre, from a man fighting with babies to a woman being ridden by a baby using her platted hair as reins.
Many of these works like the Angry Boy (Sinnataggen) have become identifiers for Oslo. The Angry Boy is in a 100-meter-long ensemble known as The Bridge, between the eastern Main Gate and the Fountain. On that same axis, a few hundred meters further, is the Monolith, an elevated 14.12-meter totem composed of 121 human figures. This work alone took 14 years to carve from one gigantic piece of granite.
