Jeanneret Charles-Édouard (w2986)

Jeanneret Charles-Édouard (w2986)

Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Le Corbusier
Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland-Svizzera-Suisse
Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1887-1965
Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various-Diversi-Différents
Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe-Europa, Asia
Internet: https://lecorbusier-worldheritage.org/
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724
Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Žaknić, Ivan, August Klipstein, and Le Corbusier. Klip and Corb on the Road : The Dual Diaries and Legacies of August Klipstein and Le Corbusier on Their Eastern Journey, 1911 : Including the Complete Text of A. Klipsteins Diary. 2019.

In 1911, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) and his friend August Klipstein (1885–1951), a scholar of art history and later renowned art dealer, undertook a grand tour of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, and Italy. While Klipstein's interests were more focused on research for his doctoral thesis, Le Corbusier's impressions were more immediate, his mindset more romantic. They both kept a diary of their journey and produced many sketches, drawings, watercolors, and photographs en route, sometimes capturing the same motif and even copying each other's work. While Le Corbusier's record was published in 1966 as Journey to the East and has become a classic, Klipstein's testimony of the expedition remained largely unknown until today. In this new book, Ivan Zaknic explores the creative symbiosis of this friendship and what the two ambitious young men brought back from their trip. Richly illustrated, including reproductions from both of their diaries, and featuring the complete text of Klipstein's diary as well as that of the little known correspondence between Le Corbusier and Klipstein, the book offers an entirely new perspective of this seemingly well-known undertaking. It introduces the personality of Klipstein as well as lesser-known facets of the very young Le Corbusier.

Žaknić, Ivan, August Klipstein, and Le Corbusier. Klip and Corb on the Road : The Dual Diaries and Legacies of August Klipstein and Le Corbusier on Their Eastern Journey, 1911 : Including the Complete Text of A. Klipsteins Diary. 2019.


Rest not
Life is sweeping by
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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