Julio Ruelas

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

Biography

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

Known images ( selection)

• La domadora ( The lion tamer; 1897)
• Self-Portrait (1900)
• La Entrada de don Jesús Luján a la Revista Moderna ( The entrance of Mr. Jesús Luján at the magazine Revista Moderna, 1904)
• El general Sostenes Rocha y su Estado Mayor ( 1901)
• El sueño de Athos ( The sleep of Athos, 1905)