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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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Marcel Iancu.
Born May 24, 1895(1895-05-24)
Bucharest
Died 1984, April 21 (aged 88) near Tel AvivIsrael

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

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.

His last exposition as a painter was in 1939. After he left Romania for Palestina. [1]

Movies

  • '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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