Who was Marcel Janco and what did he do? The Dada Movement originated during WW1 in Zurich as a rejectionist platform in a world in chaos. In 1940, at the start of WW2 and following the rise of fascism and antisemitism in Romania, Janco, together with his family immigrated to British Mandate Palestine. Israel Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Dramatic ChangeAlready a noted European artist specialising in modernisation in both painting and design within weeks of his arrival, Marcel Janco was swamped by local artists. Marcel Janco became a celebrated artist, both in Europe and during his lifetime in Israel.