Manuel Tovar

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Autoportrait, 1921.[1]
"La situación de Italia", in El Imparcial, 1914.
Caricature in La Voz, 1920.

Manuel Tovar Siles (1875-1935) was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist.

Biography[]

He was born in Granada[2] on 10 August 1875.[3] In addition to "Tovar", he also signed with the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes".[2] Tovar was described by Mariano Sánchez de Palacios as «one of the most representative figures of the journalistic Madrid of the first quarter-century».[4] The newspaper La Libertad tagged him as "the most popular cartoonist in Madrid".[2]

Manuel Tovar stated in an interview that his education was self-taught, and that one of the artists that more influenced him was Ramón Cilla.[5] Despite of some early collaborations for magazines in Valencia and Barcelona,[6][2] he soon moved to Madrid.[2] Tovar drew caricature portraits, political satire and costumbrismo,[4] and also worked in oil and watercolour painting, though he was less well known in those techniques.[2] His illustrations were published in periodicals like Madrid Cómico, Gedeón, La Correspondencia de Españan, El Liberal, ABC, El Sol, La Voz, La Esfera, Blanco y Negro,[3] Nuevo Mundo, Mundo Gráfico,[4] Buen Humor,[7] El Imparcial, La Hoja de Parra, Gutiérrez, La Risa, ¡Oiga usted...!, Heraldo de Madrid, España Nueva, La Bandera Federal and Don Quijote,[8] .

He was married to Concepción Rodríguez and had two children, Manuel and Conchita.[2] After his death on 10 April 1935,[5][3] Tovar was buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Pérez Bowie 1996, p. 163.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "La muerte de Manolo Tovar". La Libertad (in Spanish). Madrid (4.689): 1, 5. 11 April 1935. ISSN 9968-4942.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sánchez de Palacios 1969, p. 131.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sánchez de Palacios 1965, p. 14.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Vegue y Goldoni 1935, p. 1.
  6. ^ Pijoán et al. 1988, p. 558.
  7. ^ Rodríguez de la Flor 1990, p. 44.
  8. ^ García Mínguez 2007, p. 70.

Bibliography[]

External links[]

Media related to Manuel Tovar Siles at Wikimedia Commons

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