Manuel Tovar Siles
Manuel Tovar Siles (10 August 1875,[2] in Granada[3] – 10 April 1935,[4] in Madrid[2]) was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist. He used the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes".[3] 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".[3]
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.[4] Although he collaborated in his starts for magazines of Valencia and Barcelona,[6][3] he moved early to Madrid.[3] He cultivated diverse areas, like caricature, political satire or costumbrismo,[5] in addition to oil and watercolour paintings, facet this last less known.[3] He illustrated publications 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,[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.[3] After his death on 10 April 1935, he was buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.[3]
References
- ↑ Pérez Bowie 1996, p. 163.
- 1 2 3 Sánchez de Palacios 1969, p. 131.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "La muerte de Manolo Tovar". La Libertad (in Spanish). Madrid (4.689): 1, 5. 11 April 1935. ISSN 9968-4942.
- 1 2 Vegue y Goldoni 1935, p. 1.
- 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.
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.
External links
Media related to Manuel Tovar Siles at Wikimedia Commons