Marcel Janco Original Signed No. Silkscreen

Soldat blese, 1970's, silkscreen, 29.6x20.5" (75.2x52.3cm), edition 150, hand-signed and numbered in pencil.
Print is in excellent condition and is unframed.
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Marcel Janco (1895-1984) was born in 1895 in Bucharest. In 1915 he began his architecture studies in Zurich where he met his future friends, the artist Jan Arp and poet Tristan Tzara. In 1917 he became one of the first members of the famous Dada movement. He then traveled to Paris where he first came across Surrealistic artists. He became highly active in artistic and cultural circles. During the Second World War, Marcel Janco decided he would feel most secured in Israel, where he immigrated to in 1941.
Once arriving there he was surrounded by admirers and became an estimable teacher. He was one of the founders of the important Israeli art movement, "New Horizons" and the head of the famous artists' village Ein-Hod on the hills of Mount Carmel near Haifa. Israel, on the verge of becoming a nation, was an inspiring atmosphere of new themes: the war, fighting soldiers, the Eastern Jewish community and more. Marcel Janco exhibited in New York, Paris, Milan, Tel Aviv and participated in the Venice Biennale and the Sao Paulo Biennale.
Janco died in 1984.

Soldat blese (Wounded Soldier) is an image of the anti-strong and mighty soldier since he is portrayed wounded and leaning against his rifle in a defeated manner. The original painting of Soldat blese, that this print is based upon, was created in 1949, a year after Israel celebrated its declaration as a state and fought its first war, the Independence War. The Israeli soldiers were considered freedom fighters that liberated the new country, however in this scene the heroic soldier is injured. The work is dominated by Janco's recognized geometric shapes with accentuated black silhouette lines that flatten the image.

* * * An official CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY issued by Bineth Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel) will be provided with this work upon request * * *

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