The 5th Harsch cultural appointment

Private visit on June 8, 2006 of the exhibition “Le Corbusier ou la Synthèse des arts”.

The 5th Harsch cultural appointment took place on June 8, 2006 at the Musée Rath in Geneva and was followed by a nice and tasty Cocktail served at the terrace of the Lyrique, two blocks away from the Museum, place Neuve.

About a hundred people, amongst our customers, colleagues and friends, were able to know better Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Known as Le Corbusier, thanks to the beautiful exhibition “Le Corbusier ou la Synthèse des arts” organized by the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire with, for commissioners, Naïma and Jean-Pierre Jornot.

Le Corbusier puts his mark on the world of architecture and town planning of the XXth Century. This man, who fought all his life to impose a new architecture and a new town planning, was, after all, a painter. Since he was 5 years old, Charles-Edouard has a passion for drawing. During his all life, systematically, he took with him some pencils and a booklet to draw sketches.

As architect, he was listing to life and people, made every effort to give an harmonious shape to his work, keeping in mind that everything must be correctly organized.

He said : «I have this capital sin, that’s to be subjugate by visual things. I have eyes and everything that is visual, that is drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, is for me only one single phenomenon !».

Generally known for his architectural creations, Le Corbusier equally had talents of painter, sculpture, engineer, writer. The about 300 items presented (paintings, sculptures, tapestry, models….) as well as some personnel objects (his glasses, a few handwritten letters and some miscellaneous objects brought back from his trips) are part of the testimony.

Our thanks are for the Musée, particularly to Ms Muriel Pavesi and Ms Ursula Ramseier as well as to Mr. Cäser Menz and Mr. Roberto Papis; without forgetting the two nice guides who shared with us their passion for Le Corbusier and their knowledge on his life and his work.