| Fernand Léger (February 4, 1881 in Argentan in Normandy, 17 August 1955 in Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris) was a French painter, graphic artist, ceramist and film director. He was one among others to the Cubists. After working several years (1897-1899 teaching architecture in Caen) as an architectural draftsman, Fernand Léger was around in 1900 to Paris (Montparnasse). After his military service (1902-1903) from 1903-1904 he attended classes at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and the Académie Julian in Paris, worked on next, but in an architectural office and as a retoucher of photographs. After infancy impressionistic (Le jardin de ma mère - The garden of my mother, 1905) he joined the loosely organized group of so-called Puteaux, is the ideal to settle in the area of cubism, from the Cubists themselves influenced him especially Picasso and Georges Braque . His work he had produced mainly at the Galerie Kahnweiler, named after Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, an art dealer, Fernand Léger personally "discovered" (1910) and also in no small measure to the disclosure and acceptance of Cubism itself (as art direction) by various exhibitions, especially outside France contributed. In 1908 he opened a studio in the Parisian artists' colony "zone" - in the pavilion of La Ruche - together with Henri Laurens, Marc Chagall, Guillaume Apollinaire and others. (Wikipedia) |
