Eduardo abela biography

Eduardo Abela 1891-1965 Cuban painter and caricaturist. The creator of the Bobo.

Author of Guajiro, paradigmatic work of Cuban painting. Born in San Antonio de los Baños, Havana province, on July 3, 1891.

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He began his working life as a cigar maker. Has a strong artistic vocation at twenty years old, so in 1912 he moved to Havana and entered the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro.

For years he worked in photojournalism as a cartoonist.

Began publishing cartoons in newspapers Havana. Lives and works in Spain from 1921 to 1924, returning to Cuba in 1925 and revitalized the popular character’s famous Bobo, which was from the colonial period, and becomes an instrument of struggle against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado.

It integrates the work of painters who, around the Advance Magazine, introduced the most current artistic languages ​​and displayed in the exhibition of Art Nouveau.

“Marti”-Eduardo Abela

He traveled again to Europe two years and lives