''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture Park (''Peer Gynt-parken'') is a

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located in

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. The sculpture park was created in honour of the Norwegian

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, Henrik Ibsen as a monumental presentation of one of his plays '' Peer Gynt'', act by act. The park was established in 2006 by Selvaag, the company behind the housing development in the Løren-area and most of the sculptures are the result of an international sculpture competition. Selvaag was founded by Olav Selvaag and is a family-owned company that has placed sculptures in residential areas for more than 50 years, with over 500 sculptures in total.

The competition

The sculptures placed in ''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture Park comes from an open, international competition of the designs for the best figurative sculptures depicting scenes from Henrik Ibsen's drama ''Peer Gynt''. The host of the competition is Selvaag, the parent company of several subsidiaries. The members of the jury are: Director Ellen Horn from the Norwegian

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, sculptor Kirsten Kokkin, Prof. Vigdis Ystad from Senter for Ibsenstudier (The Centre for Ibsen Studies), Kim Brandstrup from Galleri Brandstrup, Peder Lund from Lund Fine Art, Artist Kristian Blystad, and Ole Gunnar Selvaag, one of Selvaags owners and the founder behind the ''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture park.Skulpturparken på Løren
Selvaag Bolig

The sculptures

The ''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture Park is unique because famous sculptors from many countries have each interpreted a piece of a play. So far 20 sculptures have been placed in the park: *''Peer Gynt, Man of the World'' by Nina Sundbye, Norway *''The Wild Buck Ride'' by Andrea Bucci, Italy *''The Devil in the Nut'' by Enzo Cucchi, Italy *''The Abduction'' by

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, USA *''Peer and three girls'' by Sergey Eylanbekov, USA/Russia *''Trolls with Pig Heads'' by Christine Aspelund, Norway *''Peers kamp mot Bøygen'' by Fredrik Raddum, Norway *''Solvejg at the newly-built hut'' by Wolf Bröll, Germany *''Peer by Aase's deathbed'' by Kinga Smaczna-Lagowska, Poland *''Peer and the Monkeys'' by Petter Hepsø, Norway *''Peer at the Emperor's Horse, wearing the Emperor's clothes'' by Piotr Grzegorek, Poland *''Anitras dance'' b
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Spain *''Peer and Anitra in the Desert'' by Elena Engelsen and

Per Ung Per Ung (5 June 1933 – 20 June 2013) was a Norwegian sculptor and graphic artist. Biography Ung was born in Oslo, Norway. He was the son of Per Ohlsen (1907–85) and Randi Tangen (1905-89). He was schooled in the conservative sculptural ...

, Norway *''Where the starting point is crazy minimal, the outcome is highly original'' by Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, Poland *''Peer Meets Begriffenfeldt at the Mental Asylum'' by Harald Müller, Germany *''Peer and the strange passenger'' by Mats Åberg, Sweden *''The Onion - layer by layer'' by Ferdinand Wyller, Norway *''The Button Moulder'' by Kamila Szejnoch, Poland *''The thin Priest with a fowling net'' by Eamonn O'Doherty, Ireland *''The meeting between Solvejg, Peer and the Button Moulder'' by Jan Kolasinski, Poland

References

External links

''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture Park, official website''Peer Gynt'' Sculpture Park, official FacebookSelvaag, official website
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