Julio Ruelas

Julio Ruelas

Julio Ruelas (born June 21, 1870 in Fresnillo / Zacatecas , † September 16, 1907 in Paris ) was a Mexican painter and graphic artist .

biography

Ruelas studied painting from 1887 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and then as a scholarship holder from 1891 at the Gdansk Art Academy . Here he met Arnold Böcklin , who influenced him greatly in his painting. After his return to Mexico City in 1895, he frequented the circles of artists and intellectuals and in 1898 co-founded the magazine Revista Moderna . In 1904 he went to Paris on a grant from the French government , where he learned graphic arts in Marie Cazin’s studio and lived and worked until his death. Many of his pictures and etchings, the content of which were mainly death, love, oppression, fear and despair, illustrated the Revista Moderna between 1903 and 1911 .

Well-known pictures (selection)

• La domadora ( The tamer ; 1897)
• Self-Portrait (1900)
• La Entrada de don Jesús Luján a la Revista Moderna ( The entry of Mr. Jesús Luján to the Revista Moderna magazine ; 1904)
• El general Sóstenes Rocha y su Estado Mayor (1901)
• El sueño de Athos ( The Sleep of Athos ; 1905)

Web links

• Literature by and about Julio Ruelas in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El enigma de Julio Ruelas ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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), El Universal, Mexico City, October 8, 2007.  
2. ↑ Julio Ruelas, 1870-1907 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 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), Museo Andrés Blaisten.  
3. ↑ Julio Ruelas (1870-1907) ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), SEPiensa.