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 magazineJugend,[6] during the 1920s Garvens became one of the leading illustrators for the satirical magazineKladderadatsch, which identified with "militant conservatism" and was an early supporter of theNazi Party.[7][8]
Garvens sometimes signed his work with amonogram of a small letter "o" inside a larger capital "G".[6]
^abFranz Goldstein, "Garvens, Oskar Theodor, Berlin, geb. Hannover 1874, gest. 1951; Bildhauer, Karikaturist, Zeichner, Mitarbeiter der „Jugend“" inInternationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme bildender Künstler seit 1850 (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020),p. 285
^Lasse Wichert,Personale Mythen des Nationalsozialismus: Die Gestaltung des Einzelnen in literarischen Entwürfen (Verlag Wilhelm Fink, 2018), pp. 327, 333
^Klaus Haese, Wolfgang Schütte,Frau Republik geht pleite: Deutsche Karikaturen der zwanziger Jahre (Leipzig, 1989), pp. 114, 132