Hesus Helger Aussia – Mexican artist
Hesus Helger Aussia (1910 1971) was a Mexican artist.
He lived his childhood in Mexico City, and then moved to Cordoba in Verakrus. His family fled from the Mexican Revolution to Syudad-Real, Castilla-la-Nueva, Spain, and then moved to Madrid. At first, Hesus showed an interest in art during elementary school and often could be found in the halls of the Museum del Prado.
At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Higher School of de Bellas, and then studied at the San Fernando Academy. Helger later married Julia Gonzalez Llanzos, a native of Madrid, who simulated for many of her later paintings and with whom he brought up two children. Hesus first worked as an illustrator in the editorial office, working on books, magazines and comics with many of his published works performed in Guashi. At the age of 18, he became a professor of fine art at the Bilboa Institute of Arts and worked in magazines such as Estampa.
Helger was forced to return to the Mexican state of Verakrus in connection with the outbreak of civil war in Spain and after the economic crisis. Upon his arrival, the painting was in fashion, and he was hired by Cigarrera La Moderna to make a calendar work printed by Imprenta Galas de Mexico. Most of his work reflected his own hobby for Aztec mythology, Catholicism, charming girls and a diverse Mexican landscape.
His paintings were shown by the idealized Mexico, and it was his romantic approach that gave him a heroic effect, which ultimately made him famous. In 1940, he created, perhaps, the most famous among his paintings by Liden de Loswalkan, which was inspired by the legend of Popocatepetl and Iztaxihuatl. It was later purchased by Ensenanza Objectiva, a manufacturer of didactic images for schools. Many of his paintings will later be reproduced in various calendars and boxes for cigars that deliver households and enterprises throughout Mexico.
Helger continued to draw in private and illustrate for different customers until his death on December 5, 1971. Jesus Helger is still noted in Mexico, Spain and the United States.
