page_title: Ruth Maier
section_title: Model for sculptor Gustav Vigeland
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth Maier / Model for sculptor Gustav Vigeland
caption_attribution_description: English: Section of Frogner park where Gustav Vigeland's "surprised" is on permanent display.
context_page_description: Ruth Maier was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Norway's Anne Frank."
context_section_description: Ruth was also one of the models for the statue "Surprised", by Gustav Vigeland. It is on permanent display in Frogner Park in Oslo. Vigeland began work on the sculpture about 1904. 
  The model for the face of the sculpture was Inga Syvertsen; the sculpture was completed in 1942. Maier was surprised by another person entering the room while she was modelling for Vigeland, and she tried to cover her naked body, hence the posture. The statue was eventually cast in bronze in 2002. Additionally Ruth was a model for Norwegian painter Åsmund Esval.
caption: Sculpture in Frogner Park by Gustav Vigeland—"Surprised". Maier was one of two models for the sculpture.
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