Manuel Tovar Siles
Manuel Tovar Siles (10 August 1875,[1] in Granada[2] – 10 April 1935,[3] in Madrid[1]) was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist. He used the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes".[4] He was described by Mariano Sánchez de Palacios as «one of the most representative figures of the journalistic Madrid of the first quarter-century».[5] The newspaper La Libertad described him with "Manolo Tovar was for Madrid his popular cartoonist".[2]
Manuel Tovar stated in an interview that his education was self-taught, as well that one of the artists that more influenced him was Ramón Cilla.[3] Although he collaborated in his starts for magazines of Valencia and Barcelona,[6][4] he moved early to Madrid.[4] He cultivated diverse areas, like caricature, political satire or costumbrismo,[5] in addition to oil and watercolour paintings, facet this last less known.[4] He illustrated publications like Madrid Cómico, Gedeón, La Correspondencia de Españan, El Liberal, ABC, El Sol, La Voz, La Esfera, Blanco y Negro,[1] Nuevo Mundo, Mundo Gráfico,[5] Buen Humor,[7] El Imparcial, La Hoja de Parra, Gutiérrez, La Risa, ¡Oiga usted...!, Heraldo de Madrid, España Nueva, La Bandera Federal or Don Quijote,[8] among others.
He was married to Concepción Rodríguez and had two children, Manuel and Conchita.[4] After his death on 10 April 1935, he was buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.[9]
References
- 1 2 3 Sánchez de Palacios 1969, p. 131.
- 1 2 Anonymous 1935, p. 1.
- 1 2 Vegue y Goldoni 1935, p. 1.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Anonymous 1935, p. 5.
- 1 2 3 Sánchez de Palacios 1965, p. 14.
- ↑ Pijoán et al. Vega González, p. 558.
- ↑ Rodríguez de la Flor 1990, p. 44.
- ↑ García Mínguez 2007, p. 70.
- ↑ Anonymous 1935, pp. 1-5.
Bibliography
- Anonymous (11 April 1935). "La muerte de Manolo Tovar". La Libertad (in Spanish) (Madrid) (4.689): 1, 5. ISSN 9968-4942.
- García Mínguez, Tana (2007). "Un año de ilustración en 'El Cuento Semanal' (1907) y su posterior influencia". Monteagudo: Revista de literatura española, hispanoamericana y teoría de la literatura (in Spanish) (University of Murcia) (12): 67–90. ISSN 0580-6712.
- Pijoán, José; Carrete Parrondo, Juan; Fontbona, Francesc; Bozal, Valeriano; Vega González, Jesusa (1988). Summa Artis: Historia General del Arte. El grabado en España. Espasa-Calpe. ISBN 9788423952748.
- Rodríguez de la Flor, José Luis (1990). El Negociado de incobrables: la vanguardia del humor español en los años veinte. Ediciones de la Torre. ISBN 9788486587536.
- Sánchez de Palacios, Mariano (17 July 1965). "Los que se fueron: Manuel Tovar". ABC (in Spanish): 14.
- Sánchez of Palaces, Mariano (17 October 1969). "Recordando a Tovar". ABC (in Spanish): 131.
- Vegue y Goldoni, Ángel (10 April 1935). "La Voz, de luto". La Voz (in Spanish) (Madrid) (4.446): 1. ISSN 2171-2506.
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