Edward Armstrong
Eduardo Armstrong Aldunate (* Valparaíso, December 9, 1931 - † November 7, 1973), was a Chilean architect and the founder-director of Mampato Magazine since No. 1 through #198 (November 7, 1973).
Biographical review
Eduardo Armstrong was the son of Alfonso Armstrong Ariztia and Inés Aldunate, he had a sister named Inés. Eduardo from an early age was a born cartoonist who became an eminent and famous portraitist of VIP personalities. At the age of 19, he traveled to Spain to study painting at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.
Marriage and children
He was married to Ester Irarrazabal Rozas with whom he had five children: Eduardo, Ricardo, Ester, Agustín and Jorge.
Artistic life
In 1956, he settled in Lisbon with his new wife and was a student of the eminent portrait painter Eduardo Malta before returning to Chile in 1959 to continue his studies with the painter Pedro Reszka.
He was a traveler, bibliophile, autograph collector. His avidity for knowledge led him to often travel in the company of his wife through different cultures of the world in which he collected experiences that he wanted to share in a publication.
In 1968, he presented a prototype of a children's educational magazine called Mampato to the board of directors of Editorial Lord Cochrane, which was immediately approved and together with the illustrator and cartoonist Óscar Vega he created the character Mampato, work that Themo Lobos continued. His original work team was made up of: Erna Boneck, Jorge Galasso, Óscar Vega, Isabel Allende, Raúl Pizarro and Themo Lobos. This publication was very commercially successful and became one of the largest editions of Lord Cochrane Publishing in the 1970s.
Tireless traveler, numismatist, photographer and illustrator, he promoted his creation with boundless energy, imposing a simple, elegant but at the same time very educational style, which entertained younger and even older generations, from the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1970s. 80.
Last years and death
In 1972 he undertook an academic study on southern American aborigines together with the historian Álvaro Barros, however it could not be fully concluded when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.
The magazine remained in the hands of the deputy director Isabel Allende Llona from March 1973 until her death on the same Wednesday, November 7, 1973, when magazine No. 198 was released to the public. Magazine No. 201 appears a review of his life, in 1974. Mampato magazine would cease to exist at No. 418 in 1978.
His work and artistic legacy transcends in libraries, cultural circles, websites and in national films.
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