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Karl Arnold (1 April 1883 – 29 November 1953) was a German painter known for his caricatures in the German magazine Simplicissimus. He is also know Greatly for being the comic maker.

Early life
Karl Arnold, born a manufacturer's son from the Upper Franconia, was a German painter, caricaturist and comics maker. After completing his studies in painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Arnold, a trained painter, embarked on his early career as an artist when his cartoons began to surface in the German art magazine for the youth, Die Jugend and the Munchener Illustrierte Presse.

Career
Arnold’s big break came when his cartoons began to be featured in the popular German magazine Simplicissimus in 1907. At a time in which other magazines and publications focused on the political storys, Simpliccissimus relied heavily on the expression of the German youth and the visual effects of the magazine. Arnold continued to evolve from just producing cartoons, caricatures, and comics, to becoming an official staff artist, and later to becoming part owner of the Simpliccissimus magazine empire. His comics continued to regularly appear in Simpliccissimus from 1917 on.

During his time at Simpliccissimus, Arnold developed a new form of pictorial story-telling and illustrated reportage. Arnold often illustrated caricatures that represented the societyof the 20’s and 30’s in a satirical fashion. Through one of his characters, “Mr. Xaver Hintermaier”, he created the figure of the “typical man from Munich” for the first time with his own special view of the world. One of Arnold’s greatest contributions to the magazine, were also the political caricatures, including his very public criticism of Adolf Hitler as portrayed in his silly caricatures of Hitler.

Through this satire, it was clear that Arnold and others at the magazine were against the foreign policy of the German government. The magazine fullly supported the World War I effort and soon after the war the magazine led the campaign against the Versailles Treaty. Because of the satirical caricatures and comics, accusations began to rise that the magazine was being controlled by the Jews, which caused friction between the government and those at Simpliccissimus. After gaining power in 1933, the Nazi’s stormtroopers arrived at the offices of Simplicissimus. Some of the cartoonists fled,but Arnold carried on working at the magazine and during the second World War produced pro-Hitler cartoons.

Death
In 1942, his career at Simpliccissimus came to a hault because of a severe illness, the magazine was later discontinued 2 years after his departure. Arnold later emigrated to the United States where he lived until his death in November of 1953.

Legacy
Arnolds work went on to be presented as KARL ARNOLD, THE DRAUGHTSMAN from June 6th 2012 to September 2nd 2012 at the PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE (Museum of Modern Art) in Germany.