Kode - Stenersen building
Glass-walled modernist gallery built for a collector's gift of Picasso, Klee and Munch.
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This guide to the Stenersen building of Kode in Bergen follows Rolf Stenersen, a sprinter, stockbroker, code breaker and novelist who spent his life buying art nobody else wanted yet. It starts with a teenager in Kristiania knocking on Edvard Munch's door, and the advice the painter gave him about what to collect. Stand at the front of the building, where the glass lets you look straight through.
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