Manuel Tovar
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
- Pérez Bowie 1996, p. 163.
- "La muerte de Manolo Tovar". La Libertad (in Spanish). Madrid (4.689): 1, 5. 11 April 1935. ISSN 9968-4942.
- Sánchez de Palacios 1969, p. 131.
- Sánchez de Palacios 1965, p. 14.
- Vegue y Goldoni 1935, p. 1.
- Pijoán et al. 1988, p. 558.
- Rodríguez de la Flor 1990, p. 44.
- García Mínguez 2007, p. 70.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Pérez Bowie, José Antonio (1996). La novela teatral. Madrid: CSIC. ISBN 84-00-07605-2.
- 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.
