Biografie von LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)

Personal data


Birth : 10/06/1887 - La Chaux-de-Fonds NE, Switzerland
Death : 08/27/1965 - Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : France

Representatives

Daniel Blaise Thorens Fine Art Gallery AG – Aeschenvorstadt 15 – Basel BS, Switzerland

Professional data


Work and Life

1930:Adopt French nationality.
1920:Adopts his maternal grandfather’s name, Le Corbusier, as his artist’s name.

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Construction - Model
Drawing-Watercolor :

Subject

architecture

Movements and styles

Abstraction
Abstraction/Creation
Purism

Works

Dominican Convent, La Tourette
Date of creation : 1955
Medium : Construction
Technical data : Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon, France
 
Unité d'Habitation
Date of creation : 1947
Medium : Construction
Technical data : Marseille
 
Villa Savoye
Date of creation : 1929
Medium : Construction
Technical data : 82 Chemin de Villiers, Poissy, France
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2005

Le Corbusier. Un architecte et ses livres
MAMCS Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain – Strasbourg, France
11/18/2005 – 02/26/2006

Le Corbusier et les livres
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Luigi Pecci – Prato PO, Italy
03/19/2005 – 05/29/2005

2004

De Pury & Luxembourg – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
09/2004 – 11/2004

Le Corbusier, peintre
Galerie Zlotowski – Paris, France
11/04/2004 – 01/15/2005

2002

Le Corbusier et la Chapelle de Ronchamp
Ecole en bois – Ronchamp, France
06/15/2002 – 08/30/2002

2001

Galerie Zlotowski – Paris, France
09/21/2001 – 12/01/2001

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2007

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais – Paris, France
10/18/2007 – 10/22/2007
Represented by : Galerie Jacques Dewindt – 79, rue Lebeau – Brussels, Belgium

2004

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Galerie Patrick Seguin – Paris, France

2003

Art Cologne, n° 37
Cologne, Germany
10/29/2003 – 11/02/2003
Represented by : Hachmeister Galerie – Klosterstrasse 12 – Münster in Westfalen, Germany

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Galerie Denise René – 196, boulevard Saint-Germain – Paris, France

2002

FIAC, n°29
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/24/2002 – 10/28/2002
Represented by : Galerie Denise René – 196, boulevard Saint-Germain – Paris, France

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Denise René – 196, boulevard Saint-Germain – Paris, France

2001

FIAC, n°28
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/10/2001 – 10/15/2001
Represented by : Galerie Nathalie Seroussi – 34 Rue de Seine – Paris, France

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Galerie Denise René – 196, boulevard Saint-Germain – Paris, France

2000

Kunst 2000 Zürich, n° 7
Zürich ZH, Switzerland
11/24/2000 – 11/27/2000
Represented by : Galerie Werner Bommer – Kirchgasse 25 – Zürich ZH, Switzerland

ART Paris – art moderne et création contemporaine, n°1
Carrousel du Louvre – Paris, France
10/19/2000 – 10/23/2000
Represented by : Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos – 1 Rue Jacques Coeur – Paris, France

Europ’ART Genève – Foire internationale d’art, n°9
Geneva GE, Switzerland
05/03/2000 – 05/07/2000
Represented by : Galerie BB International Fine Arts – Via Rompada 53 – Lugano TI, Switzerland

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Ulrich Fiedler – Lindenstrasse 19 – Cologne, Germany

1990

ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo
Madrid, Spain
02/08/1990 – 02/13/1990
Represented by : Galerie Denise René – 196, boulevard Saint-Germain – Paris, France


Group exhibitions

2003

Sept Lieux – Sept Matières
Hôtel du Département, Centre d’Art Présence Van Gogh, Château de l’Empéri, Galerie du Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône, Musée de l’Arles Antique – Marseille, France
10/17/2003 – 01/15/2004

2002

Retour au classicisme : Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck…
Musée de l’Annonciade – Saint-Tropez, France
07/06/2002 – 10/07/2002

L’art vu à distance n° 2 art et télévision, oeuvres choisies, 1958-2002
FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Limousin – Limoges, France
06/14/2002 – 09/28/2002

7 Environments, 7 Designers
Centro Cultural de Bélem – Lisbon, Portugal
05/01/2002 – 09/26/2002

París-Barcelona
Museu Picasso / Museo Picasso – Barcelona, Spain
02/28/2002 – 05/26/2002

2001

Le Purisme à Paris de 1918 à 1925
Musée de Grenoble – Grenoble, France
10/07/2001 – 01/06/2002

1997

Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
MoMA Museum of Modern Art – New York NY, United States
1997

1959

Documenta II – Kunst nach 1945
Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Schloss Bellevue – Kassel, Germany
07/11/1959 – 10/11/1959

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