Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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poet, essayist, and art and literary critic
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Place of Birth: Pitești, Arges, Romania
About Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
- Alexandru Bogdan-Pite?ti (Romanian pronunciation: [alek'sandru bog'dan pi'te?t?]; born Alexandru Bogdan, also known as Ion Doican, Ion Duican and Al.
- Dodan; June 13, 1870 – May 12, 1922) was a Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, and art and literary critic, who was also known as a journalist and left-wing political agitator.
- A wealthy landowner, he invested his fortune in patronage and art collecting, becoming one of the main local promoters of modern art, and a sponsor of the Romanian Symbolist movement.
- Together with other Post-Impressionist and Symbolist cultural figures, Bogdan-Pite?ti established Societatea Ileana, which was one of the first Romanian associations dedicated to promoting the avant-garde and independent art.
- He was also noted for his friendship with the writers Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alexandru Macedonski, Tudor Arghezi and Mateiu Caragiale, as well as for sponsoring, among others, the painters ?tefan Luchian, Constantin Artachino and Nicolae Vermont.
- In addition to his literary and political activities, Alexandru Bogdan-Pite?ti was himself a painter and graphic artist. Much of Bogdan-Pite?ti's controversial political career, inaugurated by his support for anarchism, was dedicated to activism and support for revolution.
- He also had an interest in the occult, and maintained close contacts with Joséphin "Sâr" Péladan—sponsoring Péladan's journey to Bucharest (1898).
- He was detained by the authorities at various intervals, including an arrest for sedition during the 1899 election, and was later found guilty of having blackmailed the banker Aristide Blank.
- Late in his life, he led Seara, a Germanophile daily, as well as a literary and political circle which came to oppose Romania's entry into World War I on the Entente Powers' side.
- He was arrested one final time upon the end of the war, by which time he had become the object of public hatred.
- The enduring mysteries and contradictions of Bogdan-Pite?ti's career have since drawn interest from several generations of art and literary historians.
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