The Janco-Dada Museum is located in the heart of the picturesque Ein
Hod Artists' Village, set in greenery and overlooking the sea. The Museum
was founded in 1983 by a group of friends headed by Moshe Sanbar. The building
was designed by the architect Moshe Zarhy. The permanent exhibition at
the Museum is dedicated to the seventy years of creative endeavour by the
artist Marcel Janco. The Museum devotes great attention to a wide range
of cultural activities: temporary exhibitions, events, conferences and
guidance in the framework of the Youth Wing, which annuallv hosts hundreds
of groups of various ages. The audiovisual production "Sorry, What's Dada?"
is also shown regularly. The expansion of the premises, with the addition
of exhibition halls, an archive and a study room, is currently being planned.
Marcel Janco was born in Bucharest, Rumania, in 1895. In February 1916
he became one of the founders of the Dada in Zurich, at the Cabaret Voltaire.
The Dada was an avantgarde movement whose purpose was to explode the self-deception
of established society and its art. The Dadaists created collages of objects,
lines and shapes. Janco was a full partner in all the activities of the
Dada, in its written publications and its exhibitions. In the Museum which,
it is hoped, will in the future become a centre for research on the Dada,
there is an exhibition of Janco's works of that period. In 1941, by now
a well-known artist, Janco immigrated to Israel and became integrated in
its artistic life. In 1953 he conceived the idea of founding an artists'
village at Ein Hod. Janco was also a teacher and educator and his students
formed an entire generation of creative artists. He participated in many
exhibitions in Israel and abroad and gave one-man shows in the most respected
museums. Marcel Janco died in April 1984 at the age of 89.
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