Joaquín Xaudaró
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Born | Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau August 17, 1872 Vigan, Ilocos, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire |
Died | April 1, 1933 Madrid, Spain | (aged 60)
Nationality | Spanish |
Area(s) | Illustrator, caricaturist, caricaturist |
Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau (August 17, 1872 – April 1, 1933) was a Spanish
Born in Vigan in the Philippines (at the time still a Spanish possession), Xaudaró's family, of Aragonese origin, settled in Barcelona in 1883. Xaudaró was educated in Paris and London. He began his career drawing for Madrid Cómico, La Saeta, Gedeón, and Barcelona Cómica, a Barcelona-based humor magazine of the 1890s, occasionally utilizing the pseudonym J. O'Raduax ("Xaudaró" spelled backwards). Between 1907 and 1914, he also drew for the Paris-based periodical Le Rire.
Xaudaró subsequently worked for the
His book illustrations include those commissioned by the Paris publisher Ollendorff (Les conteurs joyeux), and famously, those utilized for Juan Pérez Zúñiga's Los viajes morrocotudos ("The Fantastic Voyages"). Xaudaró's works of collected cartoons include Los Sports, an album of sports-related vignettes published by Editorial Luis Tasso in the 1920s and Xaudaró: Tomos de Chistes (ca. 1932), a collection of his work that had been published in Blanco y Negro at the end of the nineteenth century.
Xaudaró also did scenographical work for a production of