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Then Le Corbusier, using his given name, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was still studying in his home town in the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Soon he went to Paris as an apprentice architect. After several years travel, he settled permanently in Paris in 1917. Five years later he set up his headquarters on the Left Bank in a former Jesuit monastery at 35 Rue de Sevres which he still occupies...
During those five years he had done Cubist paintings (under the name Jeanneret which he still uses for his painting and sculpture), and developed his fundamental ideas. He had written Towards a New Architecture with its conclusion that "the old architectural code, with its mass of rules and regulations evolved during 4,000 years, is no longer of any interest . . . all its values have been revised...
...scope of the exhibition is defined by an early "Still Life," signed "Jeanneret" and dated 1920, eight year before the pseudonym of Le Corbusier appeared. Reflecting the Cubists' carefully controlled forms, precise edge and muted palette, this and other early works contrast markedly with the line ear, brilliantly colored Taureaux paintings of the 1950's. The most recent work displayed is an Aubusson tapestry "La licorne passe sur la men completed...
...walls. He was such a Calvinist in those days." He managed to put up a model Workers' City near Bordeaux, but the buildings so offended the local authorities that they refused to furnish them with water for six years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote of the incident later: "After 65 meetings of the jury in Geneva, the project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret was the only one of 360 schemes (seven miles of plans) that received four votes out of nine...
...become the inseparable companion of an artist named Amédée Ozenfant, and at the advanced age of 31, Jeanneret began to paint too. The two friends published a manifesto called After Cubism-"an optimistic, lyrical song on the beauty and lesson of machines, on buildings for use, and on the part played by science in an art worthy of our time." To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau. The most important pieces were those on architecture, on which the two editors often collaborated and which Jeanneret signed...