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An artist no longer New Year's Gift

He died yesterday, January 4, at 90 years, Carles fonts.

painter, designer, editor and photographer Catalan, fonts was one of the masters of the Republican posters during the English Civil War (1936-39).
Like all conflicts, as well as men and weapons was also a war of communication. Without television were newspapers, radio (historical broadcasts Dolores Ibarruri, the Pasionaria ) and posters and information to make propaganda.

Fontseré was 20 when the troops rose staging a coup against the legitimate Republican government, with the support of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. He was one of the founders of the union of professional designers in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe International Brigades fighting in the Battle of the Ebro, the star of that group of artists libertarians, socialists and communists who became involved in the conflict for the defense of the Republic, with pencils and his gun .

One of his interessanissimo Article in Castilian about that experience, analyzed in terms of technical and historical, is available on site Charity of the Sociedad de Aficionados y Historiadores Creadores (which are taken from the images accompanying this post).


his famous manifesto Libertat! , in which a peasant raised his sickle in the sky against the backdrop of the anarchist flag, which became an archetype of the genre.
With the defeat of the Republic, fled to France, going from the concentration camps where they were stored exiles in Spain, then Mexico, then in the U.S., until his return to democracy.



[photos: 1) PSU-UGT Barcelona, \u200b\u200b140 x 100, 2) Barcelona POUM, 140 x 100, 3) Barcelona FAI, 140 x 100, 4) Barcelona CNT-FAI, 100 x 70, all of 1936]