Viktors Eglītis
Viktors Eglītis (15 April 1877 – 20 April 1945) was a Latvians, Latvian writer and art theorist. He was a leading figure in the Latvian decadent movement and an introducer of Literary modernism, modernist poetics. Early life Viktors Eglītis was born in Sarkaņi Parish on 15 April 1877. After dropping out of an Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox Christian seminary in Vitebsk, Eglītis studied drawing in Penza and enrolled at Princess Maria Tenisheva, Maria Tenisheva's art studio in Saint Petersburg. There he became acquainted with the ideas of the Russian Silver Age of Russian Poetry, Silver Age and several of its prominent figures. Literary career Back in Latvia, he adapted the ideas of Russian symbolism for Latvian literature and art theory. In 1902, he used the term "Decadent movement, decadence" to designate his writings. In various articles, he laid out his poetics which were opposed to moral schemes, abstraction and realism, and instead promoted artistic individualism. He wa ...
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