Marcel Yanko, Artist, Architect, Painter, printmaker and writer. Born in 1895 in Bucharest Romania. After studying art in  Bucharest with the painter Iser-Josif between 1910-1914, Janco left for Switzerland to study architecture and in 1915 received an architectural degree at Polytechnique, Zurich. During World War I together with Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck and Hugo Ball and others he founded the "Dadaist" movement. He painted abstract illustration for issues of "Dada"  Janco designed masks in the style of African masks and costumes for the famous Dada balls and constructed scenery for the "Cabaret Voltaire". Janco created abstract reliefs in cardboard and plaster. His style was eclectic, combining abstract and figurative elements and tending toward expressionism. he took part in all the major avant-garde exhibitions, showed at the Maison d’Art in Bucharest  (1922) and was a member of the group Contimporanul (1924) and organized the first international avant-garde exhibition in December 1924. he was influenced by Futurism and Cubism.  In 1918 he became involved with the NEUE LEBEN group in Basle. In 1916-1919 he participated in the "Dada" exhibitions. After the group's dissolution,Janco lived for a while in Paris where he meets the young Surrealists, Dali, Ernst, Picabia, Marcoussis and Henri Laurens. 1923 returns to Bucharest as painter and architect (e.g. Wexler House, 1931, Bucharest, with his brother, Jules Janco) joins the radical artists group Contemporanul and co-edits its review.

  Fleeing the Nazis during World War Two, in 1941 he immigrates to Palestine where he finds the New Horizons group, he becomes an influential teacher, abandons early abstract style for bold, angular, and linear expressionism based on abstraction and stylized figures and landscapes. In Israel, Janco painted idyllic watercolor and oil depictions of Safed and Tiberias and was captivated by the exotic sights of the Orient. In 1953 he set up the artists colony of Ein Hod in the ancient derelict Arab village of Carmel.

Prizes: 1951 Dizengoff Prize for painting;

        1958 Histadrut Prize;

        1967 Israel Prize for Art, Grand Prix National d’Israel;

        1982 Worthy prize of the City of Tel Aviv;

        He has taken part in personal and retrospective Dada exhibitions all over the world including Israel, USA, Germany,