Amédée Ozenfant

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 ) in 1918, he founded the art movement of purism.

Life and work

1904 Ozenfant began studying at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin Quentin- La Tour. In 1905 he moved to Paris, to the Académie de la Palette, later also to the Collège de France, where he incidentally worked for an architectural firm. In Paris he met Charles Cottet, a fellow student, and know Roger de La Fresnaye and André Dunoyer Segonzac.

In the Salon de la Nationale in Paris Ozenfant a single exhibition took place in 1908 for the first time. He also put in 1910 at the Salon d' Automne, and in 1911 at the Salon des Independants works out. During these years he also traveled to Russia, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.

1915 Ozenfant founded the magazine L' Elan, which he edited until 1917. Here published his first thoughts on the purism. Charles -Edouard Jeanneret, who later called himself Le Corbusier, he got to know in 1917. In Après le cubisme and La Peinture modern (1925 ), they share the purism represents the journal L' Esprit Nouveau was from 1920 to 1925 its mouthpiece.

His work appeared in Art 1928. Alexandra Exter, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger operated with him from 1924 onwards an artist studio in Paris. Ozenfant taught in many places: Since 1929, it was the Académie Moderne, from 1932 his Académie Ozenfant, continued 1935-1938 as Ozenfant Academy in London, where he also taught at the French Institute, from 1939 to 1955 the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York. Alongside he lectured at numerous locations in the United States. In 1955 he returned to France.

The before the outbreak of the Second World War, together with Hendrik Theo Wijdeveld and Erich Mendelsohn planned construction of a Académie Européenne Méditerranée. in the south of France, Cavalaire- sur -Mer had failed at a devastating forest fire in 1934. The acquired land for shares sold Ozenfant in the sixties.

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