Manuel Tovar

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. 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.
  3. 1 2 3 Sánchez de Palacios 1969, p. 131.
  4. 1 2 3 Sánchez de Palacios 1965, p. 14.
  5. 1 2 Vegue y Goldoni 1935, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Pijoán et al., p. 558.
  7. ↑ Rodríguez de la Flor 1990, p. 44.
  8. ↑ 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.

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