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Le Corbusier
(Biography)
Swiss-French, 1887-1965
- (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)
- Born at Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland and studied at the local art school
- Began to study architecture in 1905
- With Amedee Ozenfant founded the journal “L’Esprit Nouveau” in 1920
- He became a French citizen in 1930
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Fondation Le Corbusier Museum, Paris, France
- Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
- Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
- Le Corbusier Centre and Museum, Chandigarh, India
- Le Corbusier Museum at Ahmedabad, India
- Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
- Tate, London, United Kingdom
- University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
