Raoul La Roche

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Raoul La Roche was a Swiss banker and prominent art collector known for his patronage of modern architecture and the arts, including commissioning Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche in Paris.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf art collector
banker
human
architectOfCommissionedBuilding Le Corbusier
collectionContains paintings by Georges Braque
paintings by Pablo Picasso
works by Amedeo Modigliani
works by Fernand Léger
works by Juan Gris
works by Le Corbusier
commissioned Maison La Roche-Jeanneret
Villa La Roche
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1889
dateOfDeath 1965
donatedCollectionTo French state
Musée National d’Art Moderne
Musée du Louvre
educatedAt University of Basel
employer Bank in Basel
fieldOfActivity architectural patronage
finance
modern art collecting
knownFor collecting Cubist art
supporting avant-garde art
languageSpoken French
German
movementSupported Cubism
modernism in architecture
nationality Swiss
notableFor patronage of modern architecture
patronage of the arts
notableWork Villa La Roche
occupation art collector
banker
patronOf Le Corbusier
modern artists
placeOfBirth Basel NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Geneva
religion Protestantism
residence Basel NERFINISHED
Paris
villaArchitecturalStyle International Style
modernist architecture
villaLocatedIn Paris

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Villa La Roche
designedFor
Villa La Roche
namedAfter

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