Branislav Virgilije Micić, known as Branko Ve Poljanski, was born in Serbia and later moved to Zagreb to continue his studies. Trained as a teacher, he soon turned to poetry and painting. In 1921 he moved to Ljubljana, where he founded the Futurist‑Expressionist review Svetokret. Back in Zagreb he launched Dada‑Jok. He collaborated with the Zenit movement, publishing poems, fiction and critical texts, and contributed to the spread of Zenitism in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and later in Paris. From 1925 he focused primarily on painting, and in 1929 published the Manifeste du Panréalisme.