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".^[6]

He died in Berlin in 1951.^[1]