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 the Salon d'Automne. In 1928 he married and finally settled in La Chaux-de-Fonds. A year later he lost his entire fortune in the stock market crash. From then on, he relied solely on the sale of his paintings and therefore had to give up his avant-garde style, which was less popular among the conservative audience. From then on he mainly painted figurative still lifes and deserted landscapes. Jean Andre Evard passed away in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1972.