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Birth
1881 (Argentan, France)
Death
1955 (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Lived/Active
Connecticut/California / France
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Often Known For
cubist painting-objects, machinery and figures, teaching
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One of the major Cubist painters in France in the early 20th Century,
Fernand Léger, also became a sculptor, ceramist, art educator and
filmmaker. He was born in Normandy where his father raised
livestock, and originally studied to be a re-toucher of photographs and
an architect's draughtsman. Between 1897 and 1899, he was
apprenticed to an architect in Caen, and then worked in Paris for two
years as a draughtsman followed by two years as a retoucher.
In 1903, he app (showing 500 of 12359 characters). |
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