Encyclopedia > Gustav Vigeland

  Article Content

Gustav Vigeland

Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, was born on April 11, 1869, in Mandal - a small coastal town in the southern part of Norway.

Started out studying woodcrafting and reading at a local school in the beginning of the 1880s, and in 1884-1885 he was an apprentice to a professional woodcarver.

Later on he impressed the sculptor Brynjulf Bergslien[?], who took him into his studio and gave him practical training.

Gustav Vigeland is known for the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

He died on March 12, 1943.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Thomas a Kempis

... from Thomas a Kempis Thomas à Kempis (1380 - 1471) was a medieval Christian monk and author of "Imitation of Christ", one of the most well known Christian books on ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39.6 ms