Bidspirit auction | Janco Marcel, a rare collage

Janco Marcel, a rare collage on original lithograph, hand signed 1950 - Janco Marsel 1895-1984 mixed technique, collage on lithograph 45/56 cm signed titled and numbered by the atist 24/100 1050 About the artist: Marcel Janco, painter, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1895. He immigrated to Israel in 1941. In Zurich, Hugo Bell, Jean Arp and a narrow Tristan, took part in the founding of the Dada movement and participated in all its activities (1919-1916). Janco created the famous masks in the African masks, which were used in plays performed at the Tomb of Walter. After a short stay in Paris (1921), he returned to Bucharest, worked in architecture and was active in the circles of modernist Romanian artists. He was among the founders of the New Horizons group (1948) and initiated the establishment of the Artists Colony in Ein Hod (1953). Studies 1915 Architecture studies at the Polytechnic School, Zurich, Switzerland teaching 1953 Kibbutzim College in Oranim Selected exhibitions: 1942, 1948, 1952 Tel Aviv Museum 1952 Biennale, Venice 1954 at the Biennale, San Paolo Collections: The Israel Museum Tel Aviv Museum Jewish Museum, Chicago Garep, Paris Various private collections Awards 1945, 1946 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, Tel Aviv 1950, 1951 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, Tel Aviv 1958 Histadrut Prize 1967 Israel Prize in Painting 1982 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, Tel-Aviv