Amédée Ozenfant
(French, 1886-1966)
Amédée Ozenfant was a French cubist painter and writer, responsible for founding the 20th-century art movement Purism with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (known as Le Corbusier). Together, they set out the theory behind Purism in the 1918 publication Apres le Cubisme. The manifesto emphasised the purity of the geometric and simplified forms that made up mechanical and technological subject-matter. Purism was formed as a rejection of Cubism in that it urged for the return to recognisable forms.
