Amédée Ozenfant

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Amédée Ozenfant (born April 15, 1886 in Saint-Quentin , † May 4, 1966 in Cannes ) was a French painter. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) he founded the art movement of Purism in 1918 .

life and work

In 1904 Ozenfant began studying at the École Municipale de Dessin Quentin-La Tour . As early as 1905 he moved to Paris, to the Académie de la Palette , and later to the Collège de France , where he also worked for an architecture office. In Paris he met Charles Cottet , a fellow student, as well as Roger de La Fresnaye and André Dunoyer de Segonzac .

In the Salon de la Nationale in Paris a Ozenfant-solo exhibition was held in 1908 for the first time. He also exhibited works at the Salon d'Automne in 1910 and at the Salon des Indépendants in 1911 . During these years he also traveled to Russia, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.

In 1915 Ozenfant founded the magazine L'Elan , which he published until 1917. Here his first thoughts on purism appeared. He met Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who later called himself Le Corbusier, in 1917. In Après le cubisme and La Peinture moderne (1925) they represented purism together. The magazine L'Esprit Nouveau was their mouthpiece from 1920 to 1925. His work Art was published in 1928.

Alexandra Exter , Marie Laurencin and Fernand Léger ran an artist studio with him in Paris from 1924. Ozenfant taught in many places: from 1929 it was the Académie Moderne , from 1932 his Académie Ozenfant , continued from 1935 to 1938 as the Ozenfant Academy in London, where he also taught at the French Institute, and from 1939 to 1955 the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York. He also gave lectures in numerous locations in the USA. In 1955 he returned to France.

The establishment of an Académie Européenne Méditerranée in Cavalaire-sur-Mer in southern France, which was planned together with Hendrik Theo Wijdeveld and Erich Mendelsohn before the outbreak of World War II, failed in 1934 due to a devastating forest fire. Ozenfant sold the land shares acquired for this in the sixties.

In 1922, Le Corbusier designed a house and studio with a curtain wall for Ozenfant in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, opposite the Montsouris water reservoir.

To the right, which makes Le Corbusier -building and studio of Ozenfant at the intersection of Square de Montsouris and Avenue Reille guess

literature

  • Ita Heinze-Greenberg: The European Mediterranean Academy. Hendricus Th. Wijdeveld, Erich Mendelsohn and the art school project on the Côte d'Azur. gta Verlag, Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3-85676-270-4

Web links

Commons : Amédée Ozenfant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Werner Maurer , in: L'Esprit Nouveau - Le Corbusier as a publicist and editor, Edition Philologus Documents b. Basel 2009
  2. ↑ Herbert Read , Aimédée Ozenfant , in: Kindlers Malerei Lexikon , Kindler, Zurich, 1967 vol. IV, p. 644 f
  3. ^ Alfred Werner Maurer, in: Architecture icons Provence, Côte d'Azur + Riviera. Philologus Verlag, Basel 2008
  4. ↑ Le Corbusier Archives: Maison-atelier du peintre Amédée Ozenfant, Paris, France, 1922 , accessed on March 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Ozenfant, Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and co-founder of purism
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Quentin
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1966
Place of death Cannes