Livshjulet

Livshjulet is a bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland within the Vigeland installation in Frogner Park, Oslo. Its figures form one connected bronze ring.

Women, men, and children hold one another while the circle suggests movement and continuity. The sculpture stands at the western end of the park’s main axis.

It lies west of the Monolith, with a sundial placed between the two works. The bronze surface shows linked bodies, faces, and individual poses.

Livshjulet brings together themes of earthly life’s transience, eternity, and the connections between people. Its English title means the Wheel of Life.

Vigeland’s design connects birth, death, joy, sorrow, dreams, hope, and longing through intertwined bodies. The wider park contains sculptures in granite, bronze, and wrought iron.

Vigeland shaped both the sculptures and the park’s layout, making Livshjulet part of a larger sequence. The installation gives this work a clear place within Oslo’s outdoor art landscape.