Manuel Tovar

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

Manuel Tovar Siles (born 10 August 1875[2] in Granada[3] - 10 April 1935[4][2]) was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist. In addition to "Tovar", he also signed with the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes".[3]

Biography

Manuel Tovar was self-taught and was influenced by the artist Ramón Cilla.[4] Despite some early collaborations for magazines in Valencia and Barcelona,[5][3] he soon moved to Madrid.[3] Tovar drew caricature portraits, political satire, and costumbrismo.[6] He also worked in oil and watercolor painting, though he was less well known in those techniques.[3] 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,[2] Nuevo Mundo, Mundo Gráfico,[6] 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] .

Personal life

He married Concepción Rodríguez and had two children, Manuel and Conchita.[3] Tovar is buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.[3]

Legacy

Tovar was described by Mariano Sánchez de Palacios as "one of the most representative figures of the journalistic Madrid of the first quarter-century".[6] The newspaper La Libertad tagged him as "the most popular cartoonist in Madrid".[3]

References

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

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