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Fernand Leger

Fernand (Joseph Henri) Leger (1881 - 1955) was active/lived in Connecticut, California / France.  Fernand Leger is 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 applied to the Ecole des Beaux Arts* in Paris but was denied admission, so he enrolled at the Acdemie Julian* and the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs*.  He also 'hung around' the Ecole des Beaux Arts* Academy, studying with Jean Leon Gerome but saying later that the experience was "three empty and useless years". 

However, he did begin to work seriously as a painter, first working in a style influenced by Impressionism*.  Later he destroyed most of the work of this perio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12328 characters.]  Artist bio

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