Arthur
Johnson
was born in
Germany in 1878. His father was American but he
was brought up in Germany by his mother. He first contributed cartoons
to Kladderadatsch
in 1906. His style was very modern and looked more like the cartoons
that appeared in Simplicissimus,
the other major German satirical journal of the time.
Johnson's cartoons were accused of portraying his victims as grotesque.
His style was used to good effect against the Allies
during the First World War and opponents of
Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Arthur
Johnson died in 1954.
Arthur
Johnson, Thomas Mann: the Poet
Laureate of the Weimar Republic (1923)
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