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Hungary, present Croatia, in a family of a royal forester, originally from Banija. Preserved biographies say that he finished elementary school in Glina, where he first saw the cinema, circus and traveling theater, and that those first impressions of his childhood, almost phantasmagoric, directed him towards his later creative work. Curiosity and searching for his own self made him, high school student at the time, one of the founders of the Serbian Middle School Society in Zagreb (1913- 14) and accompanying theater, staging works of Serbian playwrights. He, Micić, was the manager, dramaturge, director, production designer and actor. He was a freshman at the Faculty of Philosophy when World War I began. He was mobilized and, after a brief nursing course, sent to the Galician front. Traveling to the first lines of combat, he saw the sights of war horrors. There is a story that he entertained his comrades with acting, and that he saved himself from further army service, even execution, by faking madness. He ended up imprisoned in a military hospital (previous convent) in Samobor. An important moment, crucial in some aspects, happened in the spring of 1918, during his participation in the big historical meeting of Slavic nations in Prague, where he accepted, with great enthusiasm, a common conviction about a “new and better Europe”. As a “graduated student” of the University of Zagreb, he began publishing his verses in magazines, as well as reviews about theater, literature and fine arts. His first book of poems Ritmi moje slutnje (Rhythms of my Premonition) was published in 1919, and caught the attention of Miloš Crnjanski, especially because of the new free verse and reduced poetic form. The following spring, the book Spas duše (Salvation of the Soul) was published, and Micić’s verses soon found their place in the anthologies of modern Croatian, Southern-Slavic (in German) and Yugoslav lyrics. The rest of Ljubomir Micić’s life and work was determined by his magazine Zenit, herald of the Zenitism art movement. In many ways and in many directions. WITHOUT CENTRAL-EUROPEAN DROPPINGS February 1921 and publishing of the first issue of Zenit was a turning point in the life and creative work of Ljubomir Micić, but also, we may as well say, something completely new in Europe of that time. From its form, highly unusual, and very liberal graphic design for that time, to a multitude of collaborators, already known and acknowledged artists, whose contributions were printed in their mother tongues (French, German, English, Russian, Dutch, Czech, Esperanto, Hungarian and, of course, Serbian and Croatian), as well as those whose “otherness”, avant-garde, was already seriously doubtful in terms of art. Already from that first issue (of a total of 43 published), the pages were filled with literary and fine arts works of European artists, as well as texts about literature, art, theater, film… Their list is too long for a magazine article, but we will mention names such as: Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Blok, Alexander Archipenko, Lazar El Lissitzki, Ilya Ehrenburg, Lunacharsky, Yesenin, Mayakovski, Tommaso Marinetti, Ruggero Vasari, Delaunay, Lajos Kassak… There were also, of course, artists from the country, then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians or Yugoslavia: Boško Tokin, Stanislav Vinaver, Miloš Branko Ve Poljanski Branko Ve Polјanski, brother of Ljubomir Micić, 1921 Photo: From the collection of the Film Archive in Belgrade Ljubomir Micić’s two years younger brother appears in literature under pseudonyms Virgil, Valerij and Vij Poljanski. His name first appeared when he was expelled from all schools in Croatia and Slavonia in 1915, because of publicly mocking their anthem by paraphrasing it “Our beautiful land full of bottles”. He was first mentioned in literature when he signed his name as editor in chief and only collaborator in “Svetokret. Magazine for transporting the human spirit to the North Pole”, published in Ljubljana in January 1921. He later published a novel “77 Suicides” and a book of poems “Panic under the Sun”, both presented at the Exhibition of Revolutionary Art of the West, in 1926 in Moscow, within Yugoslav Zenitism, whose participation was organized by Ljubomir Micić. In Paris, Branko presented his brother’s art movement in reputable magazines. He established good relations with the Russian avant-garde as well. He fiercely confronted the poetics of futurists, especially Alfred Kerr, author of pogrom verses “Serbia must die”, so convincingly that Kerr had to leave Paris the next day. SERBIA • N O <strong>55</strong> • 2016 65
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