Marcel Janco
Romania (1895—1984)Romanian-born Marcel Iancu began his career as an illustrator for Simbolul, a Symbolist magazine that he co-edited with Vinea and Tzara. At the outbreak of World War I, he fled to Switzerland with his brother and Tzara, adapting his name to Janco. In Zürich, he met Arp, Hülsenbeck, Ball and Hennings and, together with them, helped establish the Dada movement and Cabaret Voltaire. Abandoning Dada for a more Modernist and Constructivist direction, he returned to Romania in 1922 and founded the magazine Contimporanul, dedicated to art, design and architecture. He also established an architectural practice, the Bureau of Modern Studies. Due to growing antisemitism, he relocated to Israel in 1940, where he worked as an architect, painter and illustrator. In 1953, he also founded an artists’ colony in Ein Hod, near Haifa.
