caption movement death_date death_place influenced pseudonym birth_place subject imagesize influences nationality birth_date period genre image article_title name occupation
anonymous correggio '' -rrb- sketch of bogdan-pitești , 1917 -lrb- signed '' symbolism modernism 12 may 1922 bucharest tudor arghezi , theodor cornel ion doican , ion duican , al. dodan pitești art criticism , literary criticism 200px félix joséphin péladan fénéon , joris-karl huysmans , alexandru macedonski , romanian 13 june 1870 1880s -- 1922 essay , lyric poetry , prose poetry correggio , alexandru bogdan-piteşti . jpg alexandru bogdan-pitești
 alexandru bogdan-pitești poet visual artist , journalist , political activist , businessman ,
alexandru bogdan-pitești

alexandru bogdan-pitești -lrb- ; born alexandru bogdan , also known as ion doican , ion duican and al. .
dodan ; june 13 , 1870 -- may 12 , 1922 -rrb- 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-pitești 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 Ștefan luchian , constantin artachino and nicolae vermont .
in addition to his literary and political activities , alexandru bogdan-pitești was himself a painter and graphic artist .
much of bogdan-pitești '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 -lrb- 1898 -rrb- .
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-pitești 's career have since drawn interest from several generations of art and literary historians .
