Fernand Léger photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936

Fernand Leger

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger

Born: 04 February 1881; Argentan France Modern geography

Death: 17 August 1955; Gif-sur-Yvette France Modern geography

Active years: 1900 - 1955

Nationality: French

Art form: Painting Decorative Arts Sculpture

Art Movement: Cubism

Influenced by: Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau

Influenced on: Constantin Brâncuși, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Henryk Streng

Art group: Section d'Or (Puteaux Group) , La Ruche

Art institution: Académie Julian, Paris, France , École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France , Yale School of Art (Yale University), New Haven, CT, US

Teachers: Jean-Leon Gerome

Friends: Alice Bailly, Constantin Brâncuși, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Roman Selsky

Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_...

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