The Most Famous

ARTISTS from Romania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 125 Artists, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 17th most number of Artists behind Serbia, and Sweden.

Top 1

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Artists of all time. This list of famous Romanian Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Marcel Janco (1895 - 1984)

With an HPI of 58.21, Marcel Janco is the most famous Romanian Artist.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.

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. 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 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 the British Mandate for Palestine in 1941. He won the Dizengoff Prize and Israel Prize, and was a founder of Ein Hod, a utopian art colony.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Romanian artists born between 1895 and 1895. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Romanian artists include Marcel Janco.

Deceased Romanian Artists

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