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* [http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadas/janco.htm Marcel Janco at The International Dada Archive]
 
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Marcel Iancu.
Born May 24, 1895(1895-05-24)
Bucharest
Died April 21, 1984(1984-04-21) (aged 88)
Tel Aviv, Israel
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).

Gallery

Documentaries

  • Germany – Dada, an Alphabet of German Dadaism, 1968, dir. Helmut Herbst.
  • Şi s-au dus ca vântul..., a documentary about the Baraseum Theater, dir. Radu Gabrea and Costel Safirman, Romania, 2010. [1]

Literature

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

See also

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