L'Esprit Nouveau
L'Esprit Nouveau was the title of a magazine published by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier together with Paul Dermée and Michel Seuphor between 1920 and 1925.
Subject
This avant-garde magazine, edited by Amadée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, had a wide range of topics and ideas, from art and literature to architecture and science. The aim of this magazine is to spread your ideas about painting and architecture to the public.
Initially the subtitle was " Revue internationale d'esthétique " and later added " Revue internationale de l'activité illustré contemporaine ... with topics from art, literature and science".
Foundation and goal setting
In 1917 Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris moved his residence and thus his main work center to Paris, where he took on his pseudonym Le Corbusier. In Paris, he initially worked intensively on painting, accompanied by an intensive examination of Cubism. He got to know the painter Amédée Ozenfant, with whom an artistic collaboration arose in the following years. In 1918 he created his first oil paintings ( still life ) and exhibited together with Ozenfant.
For their first exhibition, " Après le Cubisme " (After Cubism), both published their manifesto for a new art, purism . Le Corbusier also adopted its principles, the rational composition of the picture / building from elementary geometric shapes and avoidance of purely decorative effects, in his architectural ideas.
In order to spread their ideas on painting and architecture to the public, they founded the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau together with Paul Dermée in 1920. Together they published "L'Esprit Nouveau", a magazine devoted to the various forms of art, as well as psychology, economics, politics, architecture and industrial design. During this phase, Jeanneret gave himself the famous name Le Corbusier. He wanted one to be able to distinguish his work and writings as an architect from his works as a painter.
At the world exhibition Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris in 1925, Le Corbusier showed his Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau as the basic building block of a villa block of a "closed settlement in the form of a honeycomb". This pavilion represented the ultimate in purist aesthetics in terms of architecture as well as interior furnishings and decoration .
The End
Soon after this exhibition in 1925, the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau was discontinued. Differences between Le Corbusier and Ozenfant led to the separation. In 1923 Le Corbusier published all of his articles from L'Esprit Nouveau as a book under the title Vers une Architecture.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pamphlet 'Après le Cubisme' (1918).
- ↑ Le Corbusier et al. a: Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau". (Mixed lot of 2 volumes) Paris, Ed. G. Crès, (1925/26) Le Corbusier: 1 .: L'art décoratif d'aujourd'hui; 2 .: Ozenfant & Jeanneret: La peinture modern, 1926.
literature
- Editors: Paul Dermée and Michel Seuphor, later by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret = Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant: L'Esprit Nouveau, N ° 1 (October 1920) - N ° 28 (January 1925) Paris.
- Polemic 'Après le Cubisme' (1918)
- Carol S. Eliel: L'Esprit Nouveau. Purism in Paris, 1919-1925, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art & New York 2001.
- Alfred Werner Maurer : L'Esprit Nouveau - Le Corbusier as a publicist and editor, Edition Philologus Documents b. Basel 2009;
- Yann Rocher, "Faut-il brûler le Louvre? Pensées de la destruction dans une enquête de L'Esprit Nouveau ", in Esteban's book, Denys Riout, Philippe Roussin (dir.), Réévaluer l'art modern et les avant-gardes , Editions de l'EHESS, Paris, 2010, p. 137-151.
- Après le Cubisme , Le Corbusier and Amedée Ozenfant, German translation (After Cubism) by Hartmut Mayer. Essay by Hartmut Mayer. Edition Staub in the script publishing house, Neuss 2018 ISBN 978-3-928249-78-2