![]() After meeting painter Amédée Ozenfant in Paris in 1917, he mixed with many artists, including Picasso (pictured with Le Corbusier below) and Braque and became friends with Fernand Léger. He devoted his mornings to painting and sculpture architecture began when he arrived at his office in the afternoons. I have never stopped drawing and painting, looking wherever I could for the secrets of form." Although he did not begin to paint until he was 31, Le Corbusier was as committed to his painting as he was to his architecture. "Part of every day of my life has been devoted to drawing. ![]() Le Couturier died in 1954 at the age of 56, and never saw the completion of his two greatest architectural commissions. Even though the architect made it clear that he was not religious, he undertook the projects because he was given the freedom to express his ideas. Couturier commissioned Le Corbusier for the Ronchamp church (1954) and, a few years later, the convent in La Tourette (1960). He was the driving force behind some of the greatest religious artworks of the 20th century: the Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire in Vence, with interiors by Henri Matisse (1949-1951) The Church of Notre Dame de Toute Grace du Plateau d'Assy where he brought together numerous artists including Braque, Matisse and Chagall to make murals, tapestries, mosaics, and stained glass and Le Corbusier's masterpiece at Ronchamp. ![]() Having studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris before joining the clergy, he immersed himself in the arts - believing that all true art was sacred. Father Couturier (1897-1954) was a Dominican friar with a great admiration for the arts and architecture. ![]() It is less known that the chapel would never have been built were it not for French priest Pierre Charles Marie Couturier (pictured above). Notre Dame du Haut is one Le Corbusier's most canonical works. ![]()
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