Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was not only an architect and urban planner, he also worked in furniture design and was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and writer. It was important to him to express his forward-looking ideas for a modern society in a wide variety of areas. Le Corbusier, whose real name was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de Fonds in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. In 1900, he began training as an engraver and chaser at the Ecole d'Art there and, under the influence of his teacher Charles L'Eplattenier, turned first to painting and then to architecture.
The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture designs and architectural models. It shows the creative visions of an artist who had a decisive influence on the modern formal language of the 20th century and for whom aesthetic principles such as abstraction, geometric clarity and dynamism were just as important as the study of nature.
The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture designs and architectural models. It shows the creative visions of an artist who had a decisive influence on the modern formal language of the 20th century and for whom aesthetic principles such as abstraction, geometric clarity and dynamism were just as important as the study of nature.
