Statue of Ibsen, Christiania, Norway
Collection: Europe
Title
Statue of Ibsen, Christiania, Norway
Subject
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Oslo (Norway)
Description
On verso:
No. 219. STATUE OF IBSEN, CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY.
The greatest author of Norway and one of the most potent spirits of modern times, Henrik Ibsen, was born March 20, 1828, at Skien, Norway. When fifteen years old, he became an apprentice to an apothecary in Grimstad, where he composed his first works, mostly satires, love songs, and the play “Catilina" in 1850, in which youthful anger at the misery of the times broke forth. In 1851 Ole Bull called him to the Norwegian National Theater in Bergen, and from 1857 to 1864 he was manager of the National Theater in Christiania, and wrote several technically perfect dramas. One of these, the “Comedy of Love”, scourged the current conceptions of marriage in such a trenchant manner that his position became endangered. He left his country and has since lived alternately in Munich and Rome, but has found full recognition in the land of his birth.
Ibsen is a thorough optimist, possessed of an indestructible belief that truth and liberty will reign, after the present forms have perished. He is the poet of protest against social sophistry, and unerringly indicates the danger spots in modern life. Among his masterpieces are “Peer Gynt” (often called the Scandinavian Faust), “A Doll’s House”, “Ghosts” and “Hedda Gabler.”
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
219
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Statue of Ibsen, Christiania, Norway,” Digital Canton, accessed December 26, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/531.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Statue of Ibsen, Christiania, Norway
Subject
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Oslo (Norway)
Description
On verso:
No. 219. STATUE OF IBSEN, CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY.
The greatest author of Norway and one of the most potent spirits of modern times, Henrik Ibsen, was born March 20, 1828, at Skien, Norway. When fifteen years old, he became an apprentice to an apothecary in Grimstad, where he composed his first works, mostly satires, love songs, and the play “Catilina" in 1850, in which youthful anger at the misery of the times broke forth. In 1851 Ole Bull called him to the Norwegian National Theater in Bergen, and from 1857 to 1864 he was manager of the National Theater in Christiania, and wrote several technically perfect dramas. One of these, the “Comedy of Love”, scourged the current conceptions of marriage in such a trenchant manner that his position became endangered. He left his country and has since lived alternately in Munich and Rome, but has found full recognition in the land of his birth.
Ibsen is a thorough optimist, possessed of an indestructible belief that truth and liberty will reign, after the present forms have perished. He is the poet of protest against social sophistry, and unerringly indicates the danger spots in modern life. Among his masterpieces are “Peer Gynt” (often called the Scandinavian Faust), “A Doll’s House”, “Ghosts” and “Hedda Gabler.”
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
219
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Statue of Ibsen, Christiania, Norway,” Digital Canton, accessed December 26, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/531.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches