Marcel Janco (Hebrew: מרסל ינקו) (born 24 May 1895; died 21 April 1984) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and architect, and one of the founders of the Dada movement.
Janco was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest.
A friend and compatriot of Tristan Tzara, he was among the founders of the Dadaist movement, established in 1916 at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, by a group of exiled poets, painters and philosophers who were opposed to wa...
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Marcel Janco (Hebrew: מרסל ינקו) (born 24 May 1895; died 21 April 1984) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and architect, and one of the founders of the Dada movement.
Janco was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest.
A friend and compatriot of Tristan Tzara, he was among the founders of the Dadaist movement, established in 1916 at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, by a group of exiled poets, painters and philosophers who were opposed to war, aggression and the changing world culture. In 1922, Janco returned to Romania, where he gained fame as a painter and architect. In 1941, fleeing the Nazis, he moved to Palestine, and was one of the founders of the New Horizons Group (1948). He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1967. The Janco-Dada Museum, which opened in 1983, features Janco's work and explores the history of the Dada movement.
In 1953, Janco established the Ein Hod artists' village near Haifa, Israel. Towards the end of his life he helped found the Dada museum in Ein Hod...
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