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 DonQuijote,[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]
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