Charles L'Eplattenier

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Charles L'Eplattenier (born October 9, 1874 in Neuchâtel , † June 7, 1946 at Les Brenets ) was a Swiss painter and architect .

Life

L'Eplattenier is one of the most important representatives of Swiss Jugendstil ( Art Nouveau ), even if he rarely outside the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds had, where he taught at the art school since the 1897th Among his students was the architect Le Corbusier , who was possibly influenced by the name of his teacher when choosing his pseudonym.

Poster for the "No" to the crisis initiative (1935)

La Chaux-de-Fonds developed into one of the leading centers of the Swiss watch industry, and the economic boom created great demand for real estate and art objects in the style of the time among the wealthy citizens of the city. L'Eplattenier and his students developed their own version of Art Nouveau, which is also called style sapin ("fir style ") after a frequently recurring motif and was primarily interested in an intensive study of nature and an artistic stylization of the structures found there .

Among his most important works are the monuments erected in La Chaux-de-Fonds for the Republic, which was inaugurated on December 2, 1917, and for Federal Councilor Numa Droz, as well as figures and decorative elements in the city's crematorium and cemetery. In addition, the city museum of fine arts was designed according to his designs.

In 1946, L'Eplattenier had a fatal accident while looking for a motif in the rocky terrain on the Doubs River .

literature

  • The little encyclopedia. Volume 2. Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, page 41.
  • Udo Weilacher, Peter Wullschleger: Landscape architecture guide Switzerland. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel Berlin Boston 2002, page 82.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1917, La Chaux-de-Fonds Monument to the Republic
  2. ^ Monument to Numa Droz

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personal data
SURNAME L'Eplattenier, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel NE
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1946
Place of death at Les Brenets