Charles-Edouard Jeanneret miembro de l´OEUVRE

Abstract

This research presents the influence in Charles-Edouard Jeanneret of his master Charles L'Eplattenier in thecontext of two institutions. On one hand ´École d´Art de La Chaux-de-Fonds, where both figures met and where theyestablished a first line of common work; and on the other hand, the association from the french-speaking Switzerland calledl'Oeuvre, in which both briefly met. The activity in both institutions had the same goal and was in reality a single project: thereform of artistic processes bounded to the craft trades to provide the mass-produced industrial goods with the added valueof artistic quality, following the example of the Deutscher Werkbund. In order to do this, it was necessary to carry out aprofound reform of the drawing education program of l´Ecole d´Art and develop a series of propaganda actions allowing tovisualize its achievements. Thus, the strategy was based on two pillars: education and propaganda. This research details howJeanneret contributed to this project through his involvement in both, l´École d´Art’s renovation of drawing education and theAssociation l'Oeuvre’s various projects. Through them we discover the origin of some of the subjects that Le Corbusier willdevote its attention to, characters that will play an important role in different moments of his life, or projects and articles thatannounce theoretical proposals or practices of his subsequent work.