Jorge Délano Frederick

Jorge Délano Frederick (1915)

Jorge Délano Frederick ( Coke , born December 4, 1895 in Santiago de Chile , † July 9, 1980 ibid) was a Chilean painter and caricaturist , director and screenwriter.

Délano attended the Escuela Naval from 1909-1910 and studied from 1911 at the Instituto Nacional . During this time he began to publish caricatures under the pseudonym Coke in the magazines El Peneca and Corre-Vuela . He then studied painting with Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor and counts as his pupil to the painters group of the Generación del Trece .

At the same time he became a cartoonist for El Diario Ilustrado magazine . His political cartoons contributed significantly to increasing the magazine's circulation in the early 1920s. From 1924 to 1931 he worked for La Nación , where he created the popular figure of Juan Verdejo . He published in the magazine Zig-Zag , was the artistic director of the magazine Sucesos and a contributor to the El Diario Illustrado and founded the newspaper La Nación and in 1931 the magazine for political caricature Topaze . In the US, his cartoons appeared in Vision , Life and the Herald Tribune .

Délano's interest in film dates back to the 1910s. After a stay in the USA, he shot La calle del ensueño, the first Latin American sound film in 1929 , which won the Grand Film Prize at the world exhibition in Barcelona in the same year.

As a painter, Délano u. a. Portraits of Pedro Aguirre Cerda , Arturo Alessandri , Carlos Balmaceda Saavedra and Luis Barros Borgoño . A number of his paintings are in the possession of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , the Museo Histórico Nacional has a collection of his caricatures. Retrospectives of his works were held by the Universidad Católica de Chile (1976) and the Instituto Cultural de Providencia (1978). Délano was also successful as a writer with the books Yo Soy Tú , Botica de Turnio and Kundalini, el Caballo Fatídico .

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SURNAME	Délano Frederick, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Coke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter, caricaturist, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1980
Place of death	Santiago de Chile