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Fernand Léger - Biography

Considered one of the great figures of modern art, Fernand Léger is a French painter whose rich and coherent work spans the first half of the 20th century.

1881-1917
From birth to combat: the Cubist effervescence
Nothing predestined Fernand Léger, the son of a Norman cattle breeder, to become a leading figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Not very studious but a good draughtsman, he worked as an apprentice to an architect in Caen.

At the age of 19, he went to Paris and studied with the painter Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1907, a decisive year for him, Léger moved to La Ruche in the artistic effervescence of Montparnasse, where he became friends with Robert Delaunay, Marc Chagall, Blaise Cendrars...
Introduced to cubism by Cézanne, he quickly forged his own style on the fringes of Braque and Picasso's research. In order to transcribe the dynamism of his time, he developed a painting based on contrasts of form and colour, the keystone of his aesthetic which no later development would call into question.

He exhibited at the Salons

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Fernand Léger

French painter

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French:[fɛʁnɑ̃leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.

Biography

Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles, Yvelines, in 1902–1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending what he described as "three empty and useless years" studying with Gérôme and others, while also studying at the Académie Julian.^[1]^[2]

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Throughout his life and career, Fernand Léger consistently sought to capture in his art the dynamism and constantly changing conditions of modern life. He dabbled in painterly abstraction and with a mechanical aesthetic, exhibited with the Cubists and Purists, and experimented with media as diverse as painting, drawing, works on paper, muralism, set design, book illustration, ceramics, and film. As an artist and art teacher, his examinations and interrogations of modernism played a significant role for future generations of twentieth-century artists.

Born on February 4, 1881, in Normandy, France, Léger grew up in a family of cattle farmers who discouraged his interest in an artistic career. He worked as an architectural apprentice in Caen from 1897 to 1899 before moving to Paris in 1900. There he supported his artistic training by working as an architectural draftsman and photography retoucher. Although he was rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, Léger studied painting as an unenrolled student under the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme () until 1904. His approach to fo