Oskar Theodor Garvens (20 November 1874 – 18 November 1951) was a German sculptor and caricaturist.
Biography Born in Hanover in 1874,"Oskar Garvens", Musée d'Orsay, accessed 7 July 2023 and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,"Oskar Garvens", Netherlands Institute for Art History at rkd.nl, accessed 8 July 2023 Garvens was a supporter of traditional schools of art and mocked cubism in particular."The Art of Caricature - Oskar Garvens (1874–1951) looks at cubism and naturalism" in New Statesman and Nation, Vol. 102 (1981), p. 17Edward Lucie-Smith, The Art of Caricature (London: Orbis Publishing, 1981, ), p. 120
In 1911, Garvens married Margarete Unger, and they had two children, Klaus (born 1912 in Berlin) and Ursula (born 1914)."Oskar Garvens", online-ofb.de, accessed 8 July 2023
As well as publishing work in the influential arts magazine Jugend, during the 1920s Garvens became one of the leading illustrators for the satirical magazine Kladderadatsch, which identified with "militant conservatism" and was an early supporter of the Nazi Party.Lasse Wichert, Personale Mythen des Nationalsozialismus: Die Gestaltung des Einzelnen in literarischen Entwürfen (Verlag Wilhelm Fink, 2018), pp. 327, 333Klaus Haese, Wolfgang Schütte, Frau Republik geht pleite: Deutsche Karikaturen der zwanziger Jahre (Leipzig, 1989), pp. 114, 132
Garvens sometimes signed his work with a monogram of a small letter "o" inside a larger capital "G".Franz Goldstein, "Garvens, Oskar Theodor, Berlin, geb. Hannover 1874, gest. 1951; Bildhauer, Karikaturist, Zeichner, Mitarbeiter der „Jugend“" in Internationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme bildender Künstler seit 1850 (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020), p. 285
He died in Berlin in 1951.
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