OEUVRE LITHOGRAPHIQUE
Le Corbusier

8.25 x 11.75 softcover book with 66 pages with 33 color and b/w lithograph reproductions of artwork by the architect and painter, Le Corbusier. The images in this edition were printed recto only from originals from the legendary Paris ateleir of Fernand Mourlot. "Ces lithographies ont ete imprimees par F. Mourlot Paris at editees par Heidi Weber Zurich." This revealing volume examines Le Corbusier's seldomly-seen artistic endeavors, revealing his close aesthetic affinities to fellow purists Amande Ozenfant and Fernand Leger.

Excerpted from the Centre Le Corbuiser webite: In 1960, Heidi Weber had the vision of building a museum designed by Le Corbusier. This building should exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by L-C himself. This last building designed by L-C was completed in July 1967. Today, it is still a unique "Gesamtkunstwerk" (a complete work of art).

Heidi Weber visited Le Corbusier in Paris every other week during their close collaboration, which lasted over a period of seven years. She organized and held regular exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures and original graphic works in her gallery Mezzanin in Zurich. Through these activities and her genuine commitment towards L-C's work, she won Le Corbusier's confidence and received from him the exclusive rights to represent his complete art works for a thirty-year period. She also published his graphic oeuvre worldwide.

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn't until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp.

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