Artist Jean Andre Evard was born in Renan in 1876. Jean Evard first worked as a pastry chef, before taking an art degree from the École d'Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. There, Jean Evard took courses with Charles L'Eplattenier. Together with fellow students, including Le Corbusier, he furnished various villas and sacred buildings in the so-called "Style Sapin". In his painterly early work, Evard mainly focused on Impressionism and Symbolism. In 1913, after a creative crisis, he reoriented himself artistically and turned to Cubism and Constructivism. On study trips to Paris, he made contacts with the avant-garde there and discovered the art of Africa. Some of his works have been presented at the Salon des Indépendants and th...