Sketch of mount Athos from the hotel Karyes. Origin in JEANNERET, Le Voyage d’Orient, 1911 from Le Corbusier

Drawing by Le Corbusier from 7 May  1954.

According to the Le Corbusier Foundation this is Mont Athos, 1911. I however do not recognize he location. I agree with Makis that this could be very well a drawing of the Akropolis in Athens. (the site changed the text with the photo in the meawhile – 01/2015).

The famous architect stayed 21 days on the peninsula.

Bookcover Journey to the East

A text from the book from JEANNERET and Charles Edouard, Le Voyage d´Orient:

“The cypresses were black, the convent of the most delicate grey, the olive groves of greenish silver and the sky of a green crude oil invaded by violet come from the sea and from the white stars of the zénit, which entered scene this mobile set which luminous ramp was going out…” .

1911: “Rencontre avec Heinrich Tessenow, architecte de la cité-jardin
d’Hellerau – En mai, départ de Dresde pour le voyage d’Orient : Prague, Vienne, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucarest, Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Kasanlik, Istanbul, le Mont Athos (21 jours),  Athènes et l’Italie méridionale en compagnie de son ami, Auguste Klipstein, étudiant en histoire de l’art. Au cours de ce voyage, nombreux dessins, croquis, notes consignés dans six carnets, ainsi que plusieurs centaines de photographies”.

Church in Ronchamp by Le Corbusier.
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(also see page 253 of the book Athos Rudolf Biletta)

Re-edit on 3/1/15 by Wim