Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Norway Cruise, Trips at 12:00 on 24 June 2021
More pictures of the Art Nouveau National Theatre, (aka Den Nationale Scene,) Bergen.
Detail (to right hand side of entrance – mirrored on left hand side.)

Detail:-

Side Tower and Canopy. There is rule of three in the columnar windows so a hint (or a prefiguring) of Art Deco:-

Side of the building (to the rear):-

Side of building:-


Rearmost side of building:-

Back of building:-

Stitched photo of part of building:-

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Posted in Architecture, Norway Cruise, Trips at 12:00 on 22 June 2021
The National Theatre (Den Nationale Scene) is an architectural gem in the Art Nouveau style in Norway’s second city, Bergen, which we visited in September 2017.

From a distance. I didn’t realise it at the time but the statue just to the left of the lamppost is of Henrik Ibsen:-

Upper frontage:-

Entrance canopy (heavily detailed):-

Reverse angle:-

Doors:-

Door. “Billet Kontor” is, I correctly assumed, ticket office. “Video overvĂ„ket” is apparently ‘video monitored’:-

Internal door (and pram):-

Central tower with finials:-

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