Photo: Norwegian Musuem of Cultural History 1927
Magnus Vigrestad
...a sculptor born & died in Stavanger, Norway 1887 - 1957 known for his statue of Alexander Kjelland overlooking the harbor with his top hat & cape standing nearly in front of the old medieval church/cathedral (Domkirke) in Stavanger Sentrum where there's usually a fruit & vegetable market on weekends at his feet...
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I've read (in translation again) that he did not get paid for this famous statue & did not attend the ceremony to dedicate/unveil the statue, since he didn't own any fine clothes & even when he was offered a suit to attend he declined & said basically if he couldn't come/was not worthy in his own clothes then he'd just rather stay away & so he did...
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One of his quotes in the translations:
"Eg måtte jo bli et herligt menneske, far min var tømmermann og mor mi het Maria" - from Wikipedia in Norwegian & elsewhere...
"I had to become a wonderful human, my father was a carpenter and my mother's name was Mary" - someone else has translated that quote to English...
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Photo: Erling Jensen
(Note: you can drive by this statue across from the Stadion & I have - now will have to go back & take my own photo another time, then I can change out both these photos...)
Other lesser known of his sculptures - the football player, made in remembrance of fallen athletes in WWII, & the bust of the painter, Kristian Marcelius Forland (that first "o" with a slash thru it, don't have a Norwegian keypad for that letter) 1891 - 1978 from Kvinesdal, Norway (have read this is in The National Gallery, which is in Oslo, Norway)
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The Egeberg prize (Kammer Lord Egeberg) is given for Norwegian sports highest rating, it was made by the sculptor & is a bronze statuette in the image of an athlete with a laurel wreath on the body, carried forward by the two sports buddies. (have read elsewhere it's for those who excel in more than one sport & cannot find a photo of it, only prize winners with medals around their necks...)
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But my favorite & it seems little known & hardly posted anywhere...
Photo: Erling Jensen
(Note: somewhere I have taken one too & will post when I find it again)
This translated from Wikipedia, a short bio with pictures, from Erling Jensen 2008...
Magnus Vigrestad made a number of sculptures. Rogaland Kunstmuseum. Barbarkvinnen, 1913 is considered as one of his best works of art. Barbarkvinnen today in Mosvannsparken, at the café. (Barbarkvinnen = Barbarian Woman)
Also from another translation it mentions...he taught with an emphasis on purerly correct anatomy & natural...he shared the fate of a number of other talented artists that province after a promising start (only to) stagnate in the local environment...lost the desire to create...died in an accident 1 December 1957 (never having the experience of his Football Player put in place 1958)
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This article in the local newspaper on-line of the largest media house, Norwegian Broadcasting - NRK Rogaland:
Stavanger municipality bought Vigrestad-figure
Stavanger kommune secured yesterday one of the bronze sculptures created by sculptor Magnus Vigrestad.
Descendents of Vigrestad sold last fourteen Vigrestad of sculptures, including three bronzes.
Published 04.11.2000 11:45.
Permalenke http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/rogaland/1.239714
Stavanger municipality bought the figure "The woman with the barrel" for forty one thousand dollars.
All three bronzes went to rogaland buyers, and one of the purchase were Per Inge Torkelsen.
Torkelsen has been involved to get to keep as many as possible of the illustrations in Rogaland.
Magnus Vigrestad is the artist who created the statue of Alexander Kielland's on the market in Stavanger.
A statue he never got paid for.
Note: there were not photos with this article...
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