The Vigeland Park
Sculpture park of over two hundred bronze and granite figures, crowned by a towering carved monolith.
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This guide to the Monolith in Oslo's Vigeland Park leaves the famous sculptor at the edge and follows the three stonemasons, a Swede, a Dane and a Norwegian, who spent the war years and more inside a wooden shed built around one granite block. You'll hear from a man who wrote asking for the job at twenty-five, and about the tools, the winters and the eleven levels of stairs. Best heard standing at the foot of the column, close enough to see the chisel marks in the figures.
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