Marcel Janco
Romanian-Israeli painter and architect (1895-1984) · Romania · On the map · Artists · Died at 88
Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara, the Romanian art magazine Simbolul.
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Hugo Ball in the "bishop dress", 1916
Viking Eggeling's drawings for a Generalbass der Malerei ("General Basis of Painting"), 1918
Janco and friends in the Hula Valley, 1938
Janco's studio in Ein Hod
Janco (second from left) with Ofakim Hadashim colleagues at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1953
The Janco-Dada Museum, with residents' artwork and fragment of the Berlin WallAwards
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Janco was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Futurism and Expressionism before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter Hans Arp founded a Constructivist circle, Das Neue Leben.
