Fernand Léger

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Biography

Born 4 February 1881; died 18 August 1955.

  • Active years
  • 74
  • Primary profession
  • Director·actor·writer
  • Country
  • France
  • Nationality
  • French
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 04 February 1881
  • Place of birth
  • Argentan
  • Death date
  • 1955-08-17
  • Death age
  • 74
  • Place of death
  • Gif-sur-Yvette
  • Spouses
  • Nadia Khodasevich Léger
  • Education
  • École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs·Académie Julian
  • Knows language
  • French language
  • Member of
  • American Abstract Artists

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Quotes

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist,What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. .

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