Amédée Ozenfant the magazine "L’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. A second Purist exhibition was held at the Galerie Druet, Paris, in 1921 in which Ozenfant again
Edouard de Laurot Edouard de Laurot Edward Lada Laudański (23 April 1922, Łódź – 1993, New York, New York) better known as Édouard de Laurot, aka Yves de Laurot, was a filmmaker and writer of Polish/French nationality. Jonas Mekas (2007) notes the incredible circumstances of De Laurot's life, including his experiences in the Polish Resistance and surviving the second Warsaw Uprising during World War II. In a video interview Mekas recounts how Laurot would tell the friends of the engaged cinema group tall stories including how he was chosen by the Polish resistance in Warsaw to swim across the river Wisla, under German