Manuel Tovar Siles

"Visiones históricas", in Gedeón, 1912.
"La situación de Italia", in El Imparcial, 1914.
Caricature in La Voz, 1920.

Manuel Tovar Siles (Granada,[1] 10 August 1875[2] - Madrid,[2] 10 April 1935)[3][1] was a Spanish cartoonist and caricaturist. He used the pseudonym "Don Hermógenes".[4] 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".[1]

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.[3] Although he collaborated in his starts for magazines of Valencia and Barcelona,[6][4] he moved early to Madrid.[4] He cultivated diverse areas, like caricature, political satire or costumbrismo,[5] in addition to oil and watercolour paintings, facet this last less known.[4] 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.[4] After his death on 10 April 1935, he was buried in the cemetery of La Almudena.[9]

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