Bull liked Ibsen and offered him a job as a writer and manager for the Norwegian Theatre in Bergen. The following year, Ibsen had a fateful encounter with violinist and theater manager Ole Bull. One of these friends, Ole Schulerud, paid for the publication of Ibsen's first play Catilina, which failed to get much notice. Living in the capital, he made friends with other writers and artistic types. Ibsen moved to Christiania (later known as Oslo) in 1850 to prepare for university examinations to study at the University of Christiania. In 1849, he wrote his first play Catilina, a drama written in verse modeled after one of his great influences, William Shakespeare.
Ibsen worked there for six years, using his limited free time to write poetry and paint. He landed a position as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstad. There, Ibsen spent much of his time reading, painting and performing magic tricks.Īt 15, Ibsen stopped school and went to work. Nearly all traces of their previous affluence had to be sold off to cover debts, and the family moved to a rundown farm near town. The family was thrown into poverty when Ibsen was 8 because of problems with his father's business. Ibsen himself expressed an interest in becoming an artist as well. His father was a successful merchant and his mother painted, played the piano and loved to go to the theater. He grew up in the small Norwegian coastal town of Skien as the oldest of five children born to Knud and Marichen Ibsen.
ChildhoodĪs a child, Ibsen showed little sign of the theatrical genius he would become. He died on May 23, 1906, in Oslo, Norway. By 1891, Ibsen had returned to Norway a literary hero. In 1890, he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most notorious characters. In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous works: the play A Doll's House. In 1862, he was exiled to Italy, where he wrote the tragedy Brand. Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway.
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