Marcel Janco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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painter, architect
Date of Birth: 24-May-1895
Place of Birth: Bucharest
Date of Death: 21-Apr-1984
Profession: architect, poet, musician, painter, sculptor
Nationality: Romania, Israel
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Marcel Janco
- Marcel Janco (German: [ma??'s?l 'ja?ko], French: [ma?s?l ??~ko], common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu pronounced [mar't??el 'herman 'ja?ku], last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu; May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984) 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.
- 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. Reunited with Vinea, he founded Contimporanul, the influential tribune of the Romanian avant-garde, advocating a mix of Constructivism, Futurism and Cubism.
- At Contimporanul, Janco expounded a "revolutionary" vision of urban planning.
- He designed some of the most innovative landmarks of downtown Bucharest.
- He worked in many art forms, including illustration, sculpture and oil painting. Janco was one of the leading Romanian Jewish intellectuals of his generation.
- Targeted by antisemitic persecution before and during World War II, he emigrated to Israel (Then under British rule) in 1941.
- He won the Dizengoff Prize and Israel Prize, and was a founder of Ein Hod, a utopian art colony. Marcel Janco was the brother of Georges and Jules Janco, who were his artistic partners during and after the Dada episode.
- His brother-in-law and fellow Constructivist promoter was the writer Jacques G.
- Costin, known as a survivor of 1940s antisemitism.
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