Marcel Janco Prints and Multiples

Marcel Janco, was a 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. In...

Hand signed DADA abstract lithograph by famous Romanian- Israeli artist Marcel Janco. Part of a serie of 100 prints. hand signed 61/100.

Lithograph Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered XVIII/XX Publisher : Galerie Im Erker St. Gallen LCD4677

Marcel Janco, was a 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. In the 1910s, he co-edited, with Ion Vinea and Tristan Tzara, the Romanian art magazine Simbolul. Janco was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Futurism and Expressionism before contributing his painting and stage design to Tzara's literary Dadaism. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter Hans Arp founded a Constructivist circle, Das Neue Leben. Reunited with Vinea, he founded Contimporanul, the influential tribune of the Romanian avant-garde, advocating a mix of Constructivism, Futurism and Cubism. At Contimporanul, Janco expounded a "revolutionary" vision of urban planning. He designed some of the most innovative architectural landmarks of downtown Bucharest. He worked in many art forms, including architecture, illustration, sculpture and oil painting. Janco was one of the leading Romanian Jewish intellectuals of his generation. Targeted by antisemitic persecution before and during World War II, he emigrated to British Palestine in 1941. He won the Dizengoff Prize and Israel Prize, and was a founder of Ein Hod, a utopian art colony, populated by many famous israeli artists including Zahara Schatz Boris Schatz daughter, Aryeh Navon and michael gross. He has been in many exhibits including Ofakim Hadashim the "New Horizons" in 1948, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art opened the first exhibit bearing the movement's name. Among the artists showing were Pinchas Abramovich, Marcel Janco, Aharon Kahana, Yohanan Simon, Avshalom Okashi...

Plaster print on burlap canvas. The inspiration for this work is works he did in the 20's. This work is part of an edition that was not numbered by Janco