Fernand Léger photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936
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
Style: Cubism, Tubism, Abstract Art, Constructivism, Purism, Naïve Art (Primitivism), Surrealism, Orphism, Suprematism, Surrealism, Cubism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Purism, Naïve Art (Primitivism), Orphism
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:
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