Jesús Reyes Ferreira

José de Jesús Benjamín Buenaventura de los Reyes y Ferreira (born October 17, 1880 in Guadalajara , † August 5, 1977 in Mexico City ), better known under the nickname "Chucho" Reyes , was a Mexican painter .

biography

“Chucho” Reyes was the son of the collector, painting enthusiast and antiquarian Buenavetura Reyes Zavala and his wife Felipa Ferreira Flores. He had three siblings named María, Antonia and Benjamín, who died at the age of four. As a trainee at the Litografía e Imprenta de Loreto y Ancira, he learned drawing and painting from 1894 at the Liceo de Varones in Guadalajara. His father, described as a dominant figure, died in October 1911, and Reyes inherited his father's collected works.

After moving to Mexico City in the 1930s , he met Marc Chagall and many other artists there in 1942 . This was followed by participation in exhibitions in New York and London, initiated by Mathias Goeritz in 1950, his first solo exhibition in the Galería Arquitac in Guadalajara, as well as further participation in group exhibitions in Mexico City and Barcelona . In the early 1950s, Reyes also advised Luis Barragán Morfín on his work in the Pedregal de San Ángel in southern Mexico City. In 1962 he was honored by the INBA in the Palacio de Bellas Artes and in 1977 at the Universidad de Guadalajara .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jesús Reyes Ferreira in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Jesús Reyes Ferreira (photo)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Year of birth also given in some sources as 1882.
2. ↑ The day of death is sometimes also given as August 6th.
3. ↑ Lily Kassner: Jesús Reyes Ferreira ( Memento of the original of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish). 
4. ↑ “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira (Spanish), Biographical Data and Quotes, Museo Claudio Jiménez Vizcarra.