Eduardo Robles Piquer - English

He was a caricaturist and landscaping architect. Son of Eduardo Robles and Maria Luisa Piquer, he was born on May 11, 1910 in Madrid, Spain and died on December 13, 1993 in Caracas, Venezuela. He made studies of architecture in the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, when he received the title of architect in 1935. From 1932 he published caricatures and cartoons in the newspapers and Spanish magazines El Sol, Cronica, As, Estampa and Gutierrez with the signature Robles. In 1955 he published the book Caricatugenia: theory of the personal caricature (Mexico: Alameda) and in 1957 he arrived to Venezuela where he developed an important professional trajectory. He collaborated with the newspapers La Esfera and El Nacional (Where he take the column “Asi los vi yo” (that's how I see it), replaced in 1967 for “ras-guños” (scratch)) and the magazine Epoca (1960) and Momento (1962-1966). His drawings, made it with very few lines, illustrated a daily chronicle of the cultural world. In 1963 he acquired the Venezuelan nationality. Some of his works were reunited in the book “Asi los vi yo” (Santander Cruz de Tenerife: Oceanidas 1966; Caracas, Avila Mount, 1970).   From his beginnings as a landscaper stand out his projects Francisco de Miranda Avenue, and the outstanding landscape in the Contemporary Art Museum Francisco Narvaez.