Aurelio García Lesmes

At a very early age, he entered the School of Arts and Crafts in his hometown, where he studied with José Martí y Monsó.

[1] After 1906, he became a regular participant in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, and won several awards, culminating in 1926 with a First Class prize for "The Fields of Zaratán.

As a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he spent the war creating propaganda posters and murals.

This lasted for only a very short time before he moved to Barcelona, where he continued his previous propaganda efforts and taught drawing at the Labor Institute.

He aettled in Mexico City, opened a small studio, and obtained yet another appointment as a professor at the Instituto Luis Vives [es].