Frognerparken

Today I visited the studio of a friend of mine, and I was on the westside of Oslo. On my way back home, I dropped by one of Oslo's most famous parks. The Frogner Park (Frognerparken). The Frogner Park is a large park and recreational are in Oslo City. 

The history spans back to 1700, when the grounds for a baroque garden was laid. It was converted to a public park in 1904, and in the 1920's the famous sculptor Gustav Vigeland started his work on the sculpture park. It consists today of 214 sculptures. The two most famous is Angry Boy (sinnataggen), and The Monolith. The Monolith is 17 meters high, and in granite. It contains 121 figures crawling towards the sky. Gustav Vigeland finished this in the year of his death, 1943.

The park itself contains over 14000 roses, and more than 150 types of this. There are more than 3000 trees in the park, some up to 250 years old. The park was declared a protected area in 2009, as the first park in Norway. It makes you think how we protect our green lunges in the major cities. In 1971, there were plans to build a highway through the park… Go figure…

John S Lens and BlacKeys B+W Film as usual. :) And one question: Who saw the little kid with the red t-shirt and ball at first glance? I did, and was happy to get him in the shot, because two second later he was gone…