Marcel Janco
Romania (1895—1984)
Romanian born Marcel Iancu started his career as an illustrator for Simbolul a symbolist magazine, which he co-edited with Vinea and Tzara. At the onset of WWI he fled to Switzerland with his brother and Tzara and adapted his name into Janco. In Zürich he met Arp, Hülsenbeck, Ball and Hennings and started with them the Dada movement and Cabaret Voltaire. Abandoning Dada for a more Modernist and Constructivist direction, in 1922 he returned to Romania and founded the magazine Contimporanul, dedicated to art, design, architecture. He also set up an architectural practice, the Bureau of Modern Studies. Due to the growing anti-semitism, he relocated to Israel in 1940, and worked as an architect, painter and illustrator. In 1953 he also founded an artistic colony in Ein Hod, near Haifa.
Guillaume Apollinaire / Hugo Ball / Francesco Cangiullo / Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Amedeo Modigliani / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Pablo Picasso / Tristan Tzara
Cabaret Voltaire
Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 20.9 x 29.6 cm / Zürich, 1916
Dada 1
Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / Zürich, 1917
Richard Hülsenbeck / Marcel Janco / Hans Richter / Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Christian Schad / Jean Arp / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara
Der Zeltweg
Magazine / Letterpress / 31 x 21 cm / Paris, 1919
Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Hans Richter / Philippe Soupault / Pierre Albert-Birot / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara
Dada 3
Magazine / Letterpress / 23.8 x 31.4 cm / Zürich, 1918
Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Tristan Tzara
Dada 2
Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 22.9 cm / Zürich, 1917
Anton Giulio Bragaglia / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Gino Severini / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Giorgio de Chirico / Paolo Buzzi / Juan Gris / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / Fortunato Depero / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Varvara Stepanova / Vladimir Tatlin / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg
Noi
Rivista d’arte futurista / Magazine / Letterpress / 24 x 33.8 cm / Rome, 1917-1925
Der Komet
Expressionist magazine / 16.2 x 24.4 cm / Dresden, 1918-1919