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Jeanneret Le Corbusier

"To be sensitive is to be conscious, contrary to a commun description of sensitivity."

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Notes of biography

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura. Very early he tended for the painting, but had intended himself for the architecture. He would be the architect whom we know.
We have to place his painting and drawing-learning years between 1907-1911, years during which he traveled in Europe; Le Corbusier, who took definitively this pen name in 1928, left Switzerland for Paris in 1917. He got acquainted with Amédée Ozenfant who introduced him to the painting and dedicated himself to Le Corbusier’s art. With Ozenfant, he wrote « After the cubism », book-manifesto which laid the foundation of the movement purist.
Le Corbusier exhibited, in 1918, at the Gallery Thomas. The next year, with Paul Dermée and Ozenfant, he set up the review "L' Esprit Nouveau" which appeared until 1925, year of his break with Ozenfant. He created numerous watercolors, before the end of his purist-period (1928).
At the beginning of the 30s, the feminine figure took a dominating place in his work. He did, a little later, his first mural in Vézelay, his first collages and tapestries- sketches. 1938 was an important year for his plastic work, because was organized, in Kunsthaus of Zurich, an important retrospective exhibition. This same year, Le Corbusier did a set of murals in Eileen Gray's house in Roquebrune Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes, France).
Post-war years, Corbusier made sculptures. "Modulor" was published in 1950; it was the outcome of his researches on the proportion, the subject which was recurring for his whole work. Ever since, numerous exhibitions were organized on his name. From 1958, Le Corbusier also etched.
Near the cottage which he built himself, he died during one of his Mediterranean bathes in 1965 (Roquebrune Cap-Martin).

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Le Corbusier », MAM de la ville de Paris, 1962
  • « Le Corbusier lui-même », C. Petit, Rousseau Ed., Genéve, 1970
  • « Le Corbusier, savina », coll., Ed. P. Sers / Fondation Le Corbusier, 1984
  • « Le Corbusier, une encyclopédie », MNAM, Paris, 1987
  • « Le Corbusier », cat., d'expo. Galerie Zlotowski, Paris, 2004
  • « Le Corbusier - L'oeuvre plastique », Françoise Ducros, Ed. de La Villette, 2005
  • « Le Corbusier ou la synthèse des arts », Cäsar Menz, Ed. Skira, 2006
  • « Le Corbusier le Grand » (architecture), collectif, Ed. Phaidon, 2008
  • « Le Corbusier expose », Isabel Maria et autres, Silvana Ed., 2011
  • « Le Corbusier - Peintre à Cap-Martin », Tim Benton, Ed. CMN, 2016
To read from the artist :
  • « Après le cubisme », avec Amédée Ozenfant, Ed. des Commentaires, 1918
  • « L'atelier de la recherche patiente », Fage Ed., 2015
Website :
www.fondationlecorbusier.asso.fr

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