DICK DANIELS and SANDY COLE's World

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OSLO NATIONAL GALLERY


The National Gallery was free, like most national galleries and it had an excellent collection of paintings. There were a lot of Norwegian painters. Many of them specialized in Norwegian landscapes so they provided a good preview of what we would be seeing on our trip. Their most famous landscape painter is Christian Dahl. However, when I tried to find Norwegian painters on the web, there was not much there - except for Munch. And speaking of Munch, we were happy to find out that the gallery still had a version of the Scream and also the Madonna, even though versions of these were stolen about a month ago.

KROHG, Christian 1852-1925
1880 Sick Girl
KROHG, Christian
1852-1925
1888 Painter Oda Krohg
THAULOW, Fritz
1841-1906
1881 Street in Kragero
KITTELSEN, Theodor
1857-1914
Self Portrait

BERGSLIEN, Brynjulf
1830-1898
1890 Seated Girl.
MUNCH Room
MUNCH, Edvard
1863-1944
1901 Girls on the Pier
DAHL, Johan Christian
1788-1857
1822 Landscape & Shepherd

 

FROGNER PARK

Frogner Park houses statues by Gustav Vigeland (1869 - 1943). He dedicated his life to creating these statues that portray the stages of life. They are world famous and rightly so.

Photo 1 - A statue of Vigeland.
Photo 2 - The park has also some beautiful gardens and lots of open space.

The first part of the park is a long walkway, with statues on either side.

The Tree of Life section has a fountain surrounded by tree like figures.

Gates, made by Vigeland, surrounded the focal point of the park.

At the center of the park is a tower of people, surrounded by many awesome statues.