Obstfeller, Sigbjörn

Sigbjörn Obstfeller ( Norwegian Sigbjørn Obstfelder ; November 21, 1866 , Stavanger - July 29, 1900 , Copenhagen ) - Norwegian writer.

Sigbjörn Obstfeller
Sigbjørn obstfelder
Date of Birth	November 21, 1866 ( 1866-11-21 )
Place of Birth	Stavanger
Date of death	July 29, 1900 ( 1900-07-29 ) (33 years old)
A place of death	Copenhagen
Citizenship	Norway
Occupation	writer
Language of Works	Norwegian
Autograph

Signature of Sigbjörn Obstfeller

Portrait of Sigbjörn Obstfeller , Oda Krohg , 1900

Obstfeller is better known as a modernist poet . His first collection of Poems ( Digte , 1893 ) is one of the earliest examples of Norwegian literature of modernism . He tried himself in the genre of the story , and also wrote plays . In his works, the strong influence of the French realist Charles Baudelaire is noticeable. Obstfeller's works are often called the literary analogue of the paintings of Edward Munch , who was his close friend.

All his life Obstfeller eked out a miserable existence, never for a long time staying in one place. He died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen in 1900 and was buried on the day his daughter was born - Obstfeller's only child.