ARTIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Janco has received more than 173,722 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Marcel Janco is the 37th most popular artist (up from 40th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Romania (up from 111th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Artist.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Marcel Janco ranks 37 out of 125. Before him are Akira Yoshizawa, Bernt Notke, Méret Oppenheim, André Charles Boulle, Barnett Newman, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. After him are John Heartfield, Jeff Koons, Marianne Brandt, Herbert Bayer, Hermann Nitsch, and Nicholas of Verdun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Marcel Janco ranks 88. Before him are Henry de Montherlant, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Dino Grandi, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Princess Margaret of Denmark, and Jakov Gotovac. After him are Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, Prescott Bush, Hanns Albin Rauter, Albert Cohen, Lewis Mumford, and Michel Simon. Among people deceased in 1984, Marcel Janco ranks 58. Before him are George Gaylord Simpson, Branko Ćopić, Hans Speidel, Rodrigo Lara, Count Basie, and Andy Kaufman. After him are Souvanna Phouma, Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, Janet Gaynor, He Zizhen, and Eduardo De Filippo.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Marcel Janco ranks 105 out of 844. Before him are Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Mundzuk (368), and Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903). After him are Andrew Báthory (1563), Serge Klarsfeld (1935), Petru Rareș (1487), László Tőkés (1952), Radu Lupu (1945), and Arnold Hauser (1892).

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Among ARTISTS In Romania

Among artists born in Romania, Marcel Janco ranks 1. 

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