Amédée Ozenfant

Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1966) Still Life. Dishes (1920) Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Ozenfant founded the magazineL’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. Ref. Wikipedia