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Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism 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.
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culture · French painter (1881–1955) · painter · film director · sculptor · scenographer · costume designer · designer · teacher · graphic artist · architectural drafter · illustrator · also Fernand Léger, Fernand Leger, Fernan Lezeh, Fernan Lez'eh, Fernan Lezhe, Ferunan Reje
Born 4 February 1881 · Died 17 August 1955 · Q157183
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2026· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Fernand Léger, 1911-1924 : the rhythm of modern life / edited by Dorothy Kosinski and with a foreword by Katharina Schmidt and Gijs van Tuyl ; with essays by Christoph ...
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2022· 1 entry
It was announced that a lost painting of the rooftop series was discovered on the opposite side of the painting Bastille Day
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2019· 1 entry
Artnet: Fernand Léger’s Childhood Home in Normandy Will Become a Museum Dedicated to His Earliest Artistic Friendship
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2017· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine
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Artnet: 5 Quotes to Celebrate Fernand Léger’s Birthday
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1960· 1 entry
The Fernand Léger Museum was opened in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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1955· 3 entries
Died 1955-08-17.
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“the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. If, in turn, the human form becomes an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist.”
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And is buried in Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne
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1954· 1 entry
Began a project for a mosaic for the São Paulo Opera, which he would not live to finish
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1952· 1 entry
A pair of Léger murals was installed in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations headquarters in New York City
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1950· 1 entry
Léger married Nadia Khodossevitch in 1952
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1945· 1 entry
That "the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject
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1938· 1 entry
Léger was commissioned to decorate Nelson Rockefeller's apartment
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1935· 1 entry
The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented an exhibition of his work
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1931· 2 entries
At the Sorbonne, and then developing his own Académie Fernand Léger, which was in Paris, then at the Yale School of Art and Architecture (1938–1939), Mills College Art Gallery in Oakland, California during 1940–1945, bef
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Léger made his first visit to the United States, where he traveled to New York City and Chicago
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1927· 1 entry
The character of Léger's work gradually changed as organic and irregular forms assumed greater importance
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1924· 1 entry
In collaboration with George Antheil and Man Ray, Léger and the filmmaker Dudley Murphy co-produced and co-directed the iconic and Futurism-influenced film Ballet Mécanique (Mechanical Ballet)
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1920· 1 entry
Met Le Corbusier, who would remain a lifelong friend
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1918· 1 entry
Also produced the first paintings in the Disk series, in which disks suggestive of traffic lights figure prominently
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1911· 1 entry
The hanging committee of the Salon des Indépendants placed together the painters identified as 'Cubists'
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1910· 1 entry
Exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in the same room (salle VIII) as Jean Metzinger and Henri Le Fauconnier
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1909· 1 entry
Moved to Montparnasse and met Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall, Joseph Csaky and Robert Delaunay
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1900· 1 entry
To Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-02-04.
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