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Marcel Janco
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<p>Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli <a href="/facts/Visual_artist/95RgxP8e">visual artist</a>, architect and <a href="/facts/Art_theorist/FSD8f7oF">art theorist</a>. He was the co-inventor of <a href="/facts/Dada/jzSrVtQo">Dadaism</a> and a leading exponent of <a href="/facts/Constructivism_(art)/MvDofIGl">Constructivism</a> in <a href="/facts/Eastern_Europe/f5CDGzNA">Eastern Europe</a>. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with <a href="/facts/Ion_Vinea/1xeD6Jnt">Ion Vinea</a> and <a href="/facts/Tristan_Tzara/lbr0Sfog">Tristan Tzara</a>, the Romanian art magazine <i><a href="/facts/Simbolul/VvfW5cxg">Simbolul</a></i>. Janco was a practitioner of <a href="/facts/Art_Nouveau/e2Ahfp05">Art Nouveau</a>, <a href="/facts/Futurism/B6eQPHN2">Futurism</a> and <a href="/facts/Expressionism/3u9NA7mv">Expressionism</a> before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter <a href="/facts/Hans_Arp/5Jf0BIuC">Hans Arp</a> founded a Constructivist circle, <i>Das Neue Leben</i>. </p><p>Reunited with Vinea, he founded <i><a href="/facts/Contimporanul/IDVGCKGE">Contimporanul</a></i>, the influential tribune of the Romanian <a href="/facts/Avant-garde/6ofnXfo4">avant-garde</a>, advocating a mix of Constructivism, Futurism and <a href="/facts/Cubism/wmpXU7Tn">Cubism</a>. At <i>Contimporanul</i>, Janco expounded a "revolutionary" vision of <a href="/facts/Urban_planning/dcuv8eTp">urban planning</a>. He designed some of the most innovative landmarks of downtown <a href="/facts/Bucharest/4xQnsGwM">Bucharest</a>. He worked in many art forms, including <a href="/facts/Illustration/dIDdBnUo">illustration</a>, sculpture and <a href="/facts/Oil_painting/rxn2lg9o">oil painting</a>. </p><p>Janco was one of the leading <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania/IQNn21vb">Romanian Jewish</a> intellectuals of his generation. Targeted by <a href="/facts/Antisemitism/kUpfFkqx">antisemitic</a> persecution before and during <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>, he <a href="/facts/Aliyah/jEbdJ56U">emigrated</a> to the British <a href="/facts/Mandate_for_Palestine/rTD4dAqo">Mandate for Palestine</a> in 1941. He won the <a href="/facts/Dizengoff_Prize/oC0KmpUh">Dizengoff Prize</a> and <a href="/facts/Israel_Prize/CAko08CR">Israel Prize</a>, and was a founder of <a href="/facts/Ein_Hod/1jKHQ6gg">Ein Hod</a>, a utopian <a href="/facts/Art_colony/hkoelH7A">art colony</a>. </p>