In 1911, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and his friend August Klipstein
(1885-1951), a scholar of art history and later renowned art
dealer, undertook a grand tour of Eastern Europe, the Balkans,
Turkey, and Italy. While Klipstein's interests were more focused on
research for his doctoral thesis, Le Corbusier's impressions were
more immediate, his mindset more romantic. They both kept a diary
of their journey and produced many sketches, drawings,
watercolours, and photographs en route, sometimes capturing the
same motif and even copying each other's work. While Le Corbusier's
record was published in 1966 as Journey to the East and has become
a classic, Klipstein's testimony of the expedition remained largely
unknown until today. In this new book, Ivan Zaknic explores the
creative symbiosis of this friendship and what the two ambitious
young men brought back from their trip. Richly illustrated,
including reproductions from both of their diaries, and featuring
the complete text of Klipstein's diary as well as that of the
little known correspondence between Le Corbusier and Klipstein, the
book offers an entirely new perspective of this seemingly
well-known undertaking. It introduces the personality of Klipstein
as well as lesser-known facets of the very young Le Corbusier.
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