Hassis, the artistic name of Hiedy de Assis Corrêa, was one of the greatest artists to live and portray Florianópolis. Born on July 27, 1926 in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná, he moved with his family to the capital of Santa Catarina when he was just two years old. Here, it took him a while to define his residence: he was already ten years old when his parents definitively opted for the Trindade neighborhood. Hassis's relationship with the visual arts dates back to childhood. A true fan of comic books, he tried to reproduce some of the images he found in his comics. As an adult, his talent for drawing marked the beginning of his professional career, having worked as a draftsman at the company of Topografia, Urbanismo e Construção Ltda. In subsequent jobs, however, he was not so lucky. In 1948, while studying Accounting at the Academia de Comércio de Santa Catarina, he was invited by Aníbal Nunes Pires, one of his professors, to illustrate a story and a book. Shortly thereafter, he illustrated one of Salim Miguel's short stories. It was Salim who invited him to join the team of artists at Revista Sul, one of the most important publications on art outside the Rio-São Paulo axis. Throughout the 1950s, Hassis's artistic career took hold; in addition to the commissions he received to illustrate books and stories, he began to draw for magazines and newspapers. He also created posters and logos for companies. It is from this period that “Southern wind with rain” dates, a work that makes reference to one of the most characteristic phenomena of the Island and which is one of the best known of its entire collection. In 1957, Hassis and Ernesto Meyer Filho organized the Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Catarinenses Motifs. Motivated by this experience, the duo invited several other artists to found the Grupo de Artistas Plásticos de Florianópolis, whose main objectives were to facilitate the realization of exhibitions, promote the artists and work with themes related to Florianópolis. Between the 1960s and 1970s, Hassis turned to other techniques of visual expression and worked with photography, filming, collages and mural painting. Works such as “Ontemanhã” and “Mural Humanidade” date from this period, painted on the walls of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity. He also produced panels and murals for companies, state agencies and public spaces, including Hercílio Luz Airport and Praça XV de Novembro. Hassis died at the age of 74, on January 20, 2001. The house where he lived, located in the Itaguaçu neighborhood, today houses the Hassis Museum, responsible for safeguarding his memory and artistic production. The institution's collection has thousands of documents, photographs, canvases and videos, in addition to an exhibition space reserved for new artists. Get to know Hassis Museum.
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