Karl Arnold (painter)
Karl Maximilian Arnold ( born April 1, 1883 in Neustadt bei Coburg, † November 29, 1953 in Munich) was a German artist, cartoonist and painter.
Life
Karl Arnold was the fourth of nine children of the Upper Franconian entrepreneur and politician Max Oscar Arnold and his wife, Emilie, born mandrel. After attending elementary school he learned drawing and modeling at the Ducal industrial and trade school in Neustadt. In the fall of 1901 he moved to Munich and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He studied first in the character class by Karl Raupp and then in the painting classes of Ludwig von Löfftz and Franz von Stuck.
Not supported by the wealthy father, he turned from financial problems to the editors of the leading illustrated magazines in Munich. On September 23, 1907 his first drawing in Simplicissimus was printed; In the same year he was also starting in the journal to publish the youth. 1913 was allowed to make a cover of Simplicissimus Arnold for the first time, in 1917 he became an associate of the GmbH, in which the leading writers of the magazine and the publisher Albert Langen shared ownership of the successful titles. By the fall of 1942, Arnold published nearly 1,800 drawings in Simplicissimus.
At the beginning of World War I. Arnold was drafted and was lucky enough for Liller war newspaper, a propaganda sheet for the 6th Army to work as a draftsman. By 1917, there appeared 300 drawings patriotic and nationalistic kind of him. In the 1920s, Arnold published next to the Simplicissimus in the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter, the Munich-based magazine press and the magazines The Lady and Josh.
When the National Socialists in 1933, contrary to expectations, the Simplicissimus, despite its sharp criticism of Hitler, not forbidden in previous years, but continued leading, even Arnold could publish on there. The staff of the Simpl had in 1933 formally subject. He himself admitted that he did not own the resisters, and maneuvered through. In 1936, he was also able to work for the appearing in the Berlin Ullstein Verlag Berlin Illustrirte newspaper and travel in 1937 in this context as a press artist for the World Exhibition in Paris. 1938, however, his 1924 first publicized book " Berlin Images " of the Reich Chamber was indexed as harmful and undesirable. Nevertheless, he got in 1939 associated with any official title of Professor awarded.
During his studies, Karl Arnold learned the budding artist Anne -Dora Volquardsen know, lived with the 1909/10 in Paris and whom he married in Munich in 1911. Called to her, Stina, he had four sons: Peter (1912-1914), who later became a publishing editor Fritz (1916-1999), the artist Claus Arnold and the diplomat Hans Arnold. 1942 Karl Arnold suffered a stroke from which he never recovered and made it impossible for him the artistic work.
Karl Arnold was next to Olaf Gulbransson, Thomas Theodor Heine and Bruno Paul of the most important cartoonists of the first half of the 20th century in Germany.
Awards
Exhibition
- 2010: Oops, we live in! Berlin pictures from the 1920s, Berlin Gallery, Berlin and 2011 in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne
- 2012: Karl Arnold. Illustrations Ringelnatz to Valentin, Olaf Gulbransson Museum, Tegernsee
- 2012: The artist Karl Arnold, National Graphic Arts Collection, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and 2013 in the Caricature Museum Krems