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| Born |
May 24, 1895 Bucharest |
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| Died |
April 21, 1984 (aged 88) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Web | Dada Companion, International Dada Archive, Wikipedia, Wikipedia-RO |
Cover of La Première Aventure céléste de Mr. Antipyrine (1916), a book by Tristan Tzara, illustrated by Janco.
Marcel Janco (Marcel Hermann Iancu; last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dada and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe.
Together with Ion Vinea he was an editor of the Contimporanul magazine in Bucharest (1922-32).
Selected works
Bois, in Dada 1, July 1917, p. 3.
Bois, in Dada 3, December 1918, p. 14.
Bois, in Dada 3, December 1918, p. back cover.
Bois, in Dada 4/5, 15 May 1919, back cover.
Construction 3, in Dada 1, July 1917, p. 13.
Gravure originale, in Dada 3, December 1918, p. 13.
Relief A7, in Dada 1, July 1917, p. 9.
Relief 3, in Dada 2, December 1917, p. 13.
Documentaries
- Germany – Dada, an Alphabet of German Dadaism, dir. Helmut Herbst, 1968.
- Şi s-au dus ca vântul..., dir. Radu Gabrea and Costel Safirman, Romania, 2010. A documentary about the Baraseum Theater. [1]
Literature
- Centenar Marcel Iancu: Arhitect, artist plastic, teoretician, Bucharest: Muzeul Național de Artă, 1997. (Romanian)
- Harry Seiwert, Marcel Janco: Dadaist, zeitgenosse, wohltemperierter morgenländischer Konstruktivist, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1993. (German)
See also
Links
- Urban route. Marcel Iancu – The beginnings of modern architecture in Bucharest, 1929-1938, a city map.
- Marcel Iancu at J-Art
- http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/dada-to-surrealism-en/jhm-zurich/marcel-janco, http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/dada-to-surrealism-en/jhm-bucharest/marcel-janco, http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/dada-to-surrealism-en/jhm-1930s/marcel-janco
