l'élan

DESCRIPTION
- N° 1 (April 1915) - N° 10 (December 1916).
- Edited by Amédée Ozenfant. Published in Paris.
- 32,5 x 24,5 cm.

CONTRIBUTORS
Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, P. Fort, R. Allard, Amédée Ozenfant and others.

Amédée Ozenfant
In 1915, in collaboration with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1966) founded the magazine L’Elan, which he edited until 1916, and his theories of Purism began to develop. He met the Swiss architect and painter Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [= Le Corbusier] in 1917, and they jointly expounded the doctrines of Purism in their book Après le cubisme. Its publication coincided with the first Purist exhibition, held at the Galerie Thomas in Paris in 1917, in which Ozenfant exhibited. There was a further collaboration between them on the journal L’Esprit nouveau, which was published from 1920 to 1925.
A second Purist exhibition was held at the Galerie Druet, Paris, in 1921 in which Ozenfant again exhibited. In 1924 he opened a free studio in Paris with Fernand Léger, where they both taught with Aleksandra Ekster and Marie Laurencin. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier wrote La Peinture moderne in 1925. During that year Ozenfant exhibited at the controversial Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau at the Exposition des arts décoratifs in Paris. The artist was given a solo show at Galerie L. C. Hodebert, Paris, in 1928. His book Art was published in French in 1928; an English edition appeared as The Foundations of Modern Art in 1931.
TEXT CREDITS
Text for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Author unknown [URL www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/ozenfant_bio.html].