Mid 20th Century Signed Framed Artist Proof Lithograph by Romanian - Israeli Artist Marcel Janco

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Beautifully framed mid-century figurative artist proof lithograph by Marcel Janco. Artist proofs are generally considered more valuable as they are … more Beautifully framed mid-century figurative artist proof lithograph by Marcel Janco. Artist proofs are generally considered more valuable as they are truly a one of a kind artwork.

Marcel Janco (1895-1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist. He was the co-inventor of Dadaism. Janco participated in the opening of the famous Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich on February 5, 1916. He had his first show there that same year. A year later, Janco exhibited at the first Dada show in Zurich at the Dada gallery together with Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, and Tzara. He parted with Dada in 1919, when he and painter Hans Arp founded a Constructivist circle, Das Neue Leben, later advocating a mix of Constructivism, Futurism and Cubism. He designed some of the most innovative landmarks of downtown Bucharest. He worked in many art forms, including 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.

In 1967 he was awarded the Israel Prize for Painting. In the last years of his life he worked together with his friends to erect the Janco Dada Museum. Janco died ten months after the inauguration of the museum in 1984. less