Branko Ve Poljanski
{{Short description|Serb poet and painter}}
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.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TpFoDwAAQBAJ&dq=mihajlo+Petrov&pg=PT777 |title = The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context|isbn = 9781351777995|last1 = Wünsche|first1 = Isabel|date = 2018-09-03}}
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.{{cite web |title=Branko Ve Poljanski |url=https://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/authorsbranko-ve-poljanski~pe4505/ |website=Avantgarde Museum |publisher=Avantgarde Museum |accessdate=17 March 2019}} He then moved first to Vienna and then Berlin, where he got involved with Der Sturm, the Avant-garde magazine published by Herwarth Walden.
He married a French woman, with whom he had four children.{{cite web |title=Branislav Micić /Branko Ve Poljanski/ (1898—1947) |url=http://riznicasrpska.net/knjizevnost/index.php?topic=1106.0;wap2 |website=riznicasrpska.net |publisher=Riznica Sprska |accessdate=17 March 2019 |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118172010/http://riznicasrpska.net/knjizevnost/index.php?topic=1106.0;wap2 |url-status=dead }} He did not publish anything after 1940, although he died only in 1947.
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Category:Serbian Austro-Hungarians
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