Fernand Léger was born at Argentan, France, on 4 February 1881. Léger began his career as a an artist by working as a architectural draughtsman. The first profound influence on Léger's work came from Cézanne. From 1909 Léger himself developed a quirky Cubist style, distinguished by reduction to the simplest basic forms and formal austerity linked with a pure, sharply contrasting palette. As a painter Fernand Léger exerted an enormous influence on the development of Cubism, Constructivism and the modern advertising poster as well as various forms of applied art.
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