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'''Marcel Janco''' (Romanian name of Marcel Hermann Iancu) [last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu] was  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.
 
'''Marcel Janco''' (Romanian name of Marcel Hermann Iancu) [last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu] was  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.
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==The Dada Mouvent==
  
 
[[File:Cover aventure-.jpg|thumb|200px|'La Première Aventure céléste de Mr. Antipyrine' (1916), book by Tristan Tzara ilustrated by Marcel Janco]]
 
[[File:Cover aventure-.jpg|thumb|200px|'La Première Aventure céléste de Mr. Antipyrine' (1916), book by Tristan Tzara ilustrated by Marcel Janco]]
 
  
 
His last exposition as a painter was in 1939. After he left Romania for Palestina. [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Constructorul-Marcel-Iancu*articleID_25296-articles_details.html]
 
His last exposition as a painter was in 1939. After he left Romania for Palestina. [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Constructorul-Marcel-Iancu*articleID_25296-articles_details.html]
He will return in Romania in 1922 and together with [[Ion Vinea]] they will publish the  [[Contimporanul]] magazine.
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He will return in Romania in 1922 and together with [[Ion Vinea]] they will publish the  [[Contimporanul]] magazine in [[Bucharest]], that means 102 issues between 1922 and 1932.  
 
 
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
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Marcel Iancu.
Born May 24, 1895(1895-05-24)
Bucharest
Died 1984, April 21 (aged 88) near Tel AvivIsrael

Marcel Janco (Romanian name of Marcel Hermann Iancu) [last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu] was 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.

The Dada Mouvent

'La Première Aventure céléste de Mr. Antipyrine' (1916), book by Tristan Tzara ilustrated by Marcel Janco

His last exposition as a painter was in 1939. After he left Romania for Palestina. [1] He will return in Romania in 1922 and together with Ion Vinea they will publish the Contimporanul magazine in Bucharest, that means 102 issues between 1922 and 1932.

Gallery

Documentaries

  • 'Germany – Dada, an Alphabet of German Dadaism' (1968), documentary by Helmut Herbst
  • 'Şi s-au dus ca vântul...', documentary film about the Baraseum Theater, directed by Radu Gabrea and Costel Safirman (Romania, 2010) [2]
See also Romanian Avant-garde [3]

Literature

  • Centenar Marcel Iancu: Arhitect, artist plastic, teoretician. Muzeul Național de Artă, București, 1997
  • W. Verksuf: Marcel Iancu, Dada, Teufen (Elveția), 1957
  • Harry Seiwert: Marcel Janco: Dadaist, Zeitgenosse, wohltemperierter morgenländischer Konstruktivist. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

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