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Marcel Janco

1895 - 1984

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Marcel Janco (German: [maʁˈsɛl ˈjaŋkoː], French: [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ko]; common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu [marˈtʃel ˈherman ˈjaŋku]; 24 May 1895 – 21 April 1984) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Janco is the 40th most popular artist (down from 37th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Romania (down from 105th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Artist.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Marcel Janco ranks 40 out of 125. Before him are Méret Oppenheim, William Wallace Denslow, John Heartfield, Ulay, André Charles Boulle, and Jeff Koons. After him are Marianne Brandt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Nicholas of Verdun, Judy Chicago, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Yoshitaka Amano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Marcel Janco ranks 93. Before him are Sheng Shicai, Henry de Montherlant, Walter Stennes, Paul Muni, René Mayer, and Archduke Wilhelm of Austria. After him are Michel Simon, Louis Raymond, Max Koegel, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Hanns Albin Rauter, and Prescott Bush. Among people deceased in 1984, Marcel Janco ranks 67. Before him are Chaïm Perelman, Count Basie, Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, Joseph Losey, and George Gaylord Simpson. After him are Fikret Amirov, Martin Luther King Sr., He Zizhen, Eduardo De Filippo, Branko Ćopić, and Ernesto Mascheroni.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Marcel Janco ranks 116 out of 844. Before him are Radu Lupu (1945), Adalbert Deșu (1909), Farkas Bolyai (1775), Vlad Călugărul (1425), Abraham Wald (1902), and Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654). After him are Ion Mihai Pacepa (1928), Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784), Angelica Rozeanu (1921), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Armand Călinescu (1893), and Aureolus (220).

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Among ARTISTS In Romania

Among artists born in Romania, Marcel Janco ranks 1. 

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