Nuevo Mundo: One of the Most Important Illustrated Magazines in Spain in the Early 20th Century

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Nuevo Mundo was a Spanish illustrated magazine, published between 1894 and 1933 in Madrid. With a weekly circulation, its first issue was published in 1894. It was “one of the most important illustrated magazines in Spain in the first third of the 20th century.”

Covers of the Nuevo Mundo in the early 20th century

Its founders were the journalists José del Perojo and Mariano Zavala; upon the death of the former there was a split in the publication that led to the birth of a new magazine: Mundo Gráfico, in 1911. Nuevo Mundo would join the Prensa Gráfica group in 1915.

Between 1900 and 1926, it had a supplement that was published on Sundays, called Por esos Mundos. Authors of the stature of Miguel de Unamuno, José Sánchez Rojas, Ramiro de Maeztu, Emilio Bobadilla or Mariano de Cavia collaborated in Nuevo Mundo.

Nuevo Mundo gave rise to a new type of magazine in Spain, betting together with Blanco y Negro for the inclusion of a large number of photographs, to the detriment of the style imposed by the La Ilustración Española y Americana and its characteristic engravings. The last issue of Nuevo Mundo was published on December 28, 1933.

Here below is a set of amazing photos that shows covers of the Nuevo Mundo in the early 20th century.