Parallels. Gustav Vigeland and his Contemporaries Bourdelle, Maillol, Meunier, Rodin

Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943) is most famous for the Vigeland Park in Oslo. His design and execution of the park, from idea to reality, is the result of unparallelled daring, patience and timing. However, it was with his portraits, monuments and small sculpture groups that Vigeland first made a name for himself as Norway’s foremost sculptor, in the early twentieth century.
Parallels. Gustav Vigeland and his Contemporaries focuses on this – for many unfamiliar – aspect of Vigeland’s oeuvre. It also sheds light on the sculptor’s international associations. For the first time Vigeland is presented together with
some of the most central artists of his age, all pioneers in the development of modern sculpture: Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) and Aristide Maillol (1861–1944).
This publication accompanies the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Gustav Vigeland’s birth and presents texts by Jarle Strømodden, Guri Skuggen, Sura Levine, Christine Lancestremère, Amélie Simier, plus chronologies of the
artists and an appendix section.

Guri Skuggen is an art historian and curator at the Vigeland Museum, Oslo.
Jarle Strømodden is an art historian and since 2005 director at the Vigeland
Museum.