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Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret was born in 1887 in La Chaux -de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura. Very early he tented for the painting, but had intented himself for the architecture. He would be an 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. Le Corbusier exhibited in 1918 at the Gallery Thomas, he set up the review 'L'esprit nouveau" which appeared until 1925. At the beginning of the 30s, the feminine figure took place in his work. Hi did, a little later, his first mural in Vezelay, his first collages and tapestries-sketches. In 1938, Le Corbusier did a set of murals in Eileen Gray's house in Roquebrune Cap Martin (France). Post-war years, Le 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. Near the cottage which he built himself, he died during one of his Mediterranean bathes in 1965 (Roquebrune Cap-Martin). |
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