Branko Ve Poljanski

Branko Ve Poljanski (pseudonym of Branislav Micić, 22 October 1898, Sošice - 14 January, 1947, Recloses, France ) was a Serb poet and painter active in the Serbo-Croat avant-garde. He was the co-founder of the avant-garde movement Zenitism and its magazine Zenit.[1]

Branko Ve Poljanski (1920s)

Biography

He was born Branislav Micić in Austro-Hungarian Empire's part of nowadays Croatia. Both he and his brother, Ljubomir Micić became prominent avant-garde artists. Branko qualified as teacher in Zagreb and moved to Ljubljana where he founded Svetokret journal in 1921.[2] He then moved first to Vienna and then Berlin, where he got involved with Der Sturm, the Avant-garde magazine published by Herwarth Walden.[2]

He married a French woman, with whom he had four children.[3] He did not publish anything after 1940, although he died only in 1947.[2]

References
  1. Wünsche, Isabel (2018-09-03). The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context. ISBN 9781351777995.
  2. "Branko Ve Poljanski". Avantgarde Museum. Avantgarde Museum. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  3. "Branislav Micić /Branko Ve Poljanski/ (1898—1947)". riznicasrpska.net. Riznica Sprska. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2019.


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