Oskar Garvens

Oskar Theodor Garvens (20 November 1874 – 18 November 1951) was a German sculptor and caricaturist.

Born in Hanover in 1874,[1] and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,[2] Garvens was a supporter of traditional schools of art and mocked cubism in particular.

[3][4] In 1911, Garvens married Margarete Unger, and they had two children, Klaus (born 1912 in Berlin) and Ursula (born 1914).

[5] As well as publishing work in the influential arts magazine Jugend,[6] 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.

[7][8] Garvens sometimes signed his work with a monogram of a small letter "o" inside a larger capital "G".