The Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo [antikvár]

On a windy April day in 1916 Gustav Vigelancl opened his mean and miserable studio to the public. Ordinarily it was extremely difficult to gain entry there, but throughout that one April week an endless queue of silent, enthralled visitors inched through the sculptor's workshop. Wlien they had been through the modest studio and the idyllic little garden, they ran back and queued up again so they could repeat the experience. And what was it the citizens of Oslo experienced here? In the crowded studio where giant fungus growths throve on the damp walls, they encounterecl the work which Gustav Vige-land had dreamed of and worked on ever since the turn of the century—The Fountain. It was almost identical with the fountain which stands in Frogner Park today, but at that time it was in-tended to stand in the middle of town. Back in 1900 it had only been a project consisting of a large bowl held aloft by giants. The plans expanded however, and in 1906 Vigeland exhibited a new model where the fountain itself was surrounded by twenty bronzé trees. These trees contained people whose lives unfolded among the branches. It was a mighty The queue outside Vigeland's old studio in 1916.