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|death_place = [[Tel Aviv]], Israel
 
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|web = [[DadaCompanion::http://www.dada-companion.com/janco/|Dada Companion]], [http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadas/janco.htm International Dada Archive], [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco|Wikipedia]], [http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu Wikipedia-RO]
 
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[[File:Cover aventure-.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''La Première Aventure céléste de Mr. Antipyrine'' (1916), a book by [[Tristan Tzara]], illustrated by Janco.]]
 
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==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://www.e-cart.ro/asociatia/en/news/Urban_route_M.Iancu.pdf Urban route. Marcel Iancu – The beginnings of modern architecture in Bucharest, 1929-1938], a city map.
 
* [http://www.e-cart.ro/asociatia/en/news/Urban_route_M.Iancu.pdf Urban route. Marcel Iancu – The beginnings of modern architecture in Bucharest, 1929-1938], a city map.
* [http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/dadas/janco.htm Marcel Janco at The International Dada Archive]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco Marcel Janco at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Iancu Marcel Janco at Romanian Wikipedia]
 
 
* [http://www.j-art.ro/artist.php?uid=9 Marcel Iancu at J-Art]
 
* [http://www.j-art.ro/artist.php?uid=9 Marcel Iancu at J-Art]
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* 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
  
 
[[Category:Dada|Janco, Marcel]] [[Category:Constructivism|Janco, Marcel]]
 
[[Category:Dada|Janco, Marcel]] [[Category:Constructivism|Janco, Marcel]]

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Born May 24, 1895(1895-05-24)
Bucharest
Died April 21, 1984(1984-04-21) (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

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

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