It Might be Beautiful: The art collector Rolf Stenersen
Rolf Stenersen (1899鈥�1978) was Norway鈥檚 foremost collector of modern art in the 20th century.
At the age of just 37, he donated a large collection of pictures by Edvard Munch and recent Norwegian artists to the city of Oslo.
In 1971, he gifted a new collection of works by European modernists including Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, and Sonia Delaunay to the city of Bergen.
Today, the two collections, which together contain more than a thosand works, are managed by Kode in Bergen and MUNCH in Oslo.
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Rolf Stenersen (1899鈥�1978) was Norway鈥檚 foremost collector of modern art in the 20th century.
At the age of just 37, he donated a large collection of pictures by Edvard Munch and recent Norwegian artists to the city of Oslo.
In 1971, he gifted a new collection of works by European modernists including Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, and Sonia Delaunay to the city of Bergen.
Today, the two collections, which together contain more than a thosand works, are managed by Kode in Bergen and MUNCH in Oslo.
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