Marcellus Emants
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Marcellus Emants (Voorburg, August 12 1848 – Baden (Switzerland), October 14 1923) was a Dutch writer. He is one of the few examples of naturalists in the Netherlands and regarded as a forerunner of the Tachtigers. His best known book is Een nagelaten bekentenis from 1894.
His third marriage was with German actress Jenny Kuhn which begot one daughter, Eva Clara Jenny (July 14 1909 's Gravenhage, August 8 1985 Velp), who went on to call herself Lilith, after one of her father' poems. [1] [Apr 2007]
The Movement of 1880
A group of young men collected around his name. They were joined by a poet-novelist-dramatist somewhat older than themselves, Marcellus Emants (1848 – 1923). Emants had written a symbolical poem called "Lilith" in 1879 that had been stigmatised as audacious and meaningless; encouraged by the admiration of his juniors, Emants published in 1881 a treatise in the form of a novel in which the first open attack was made on the old school.
