Biography
Oskar Bangemann (b. Braunschweig, Germany 1882 - d. probably Berlin, after 1942) was a German wood engraver. He received training from the wood engraver Probst in Braunschweig from 1896 to 1901. Through the recommendation of the painter Max Slevogt (1868-1932), for whom he had previously created wood engravings of drawings and illustrations, he took the woodcut class at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin and was also a professor at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin (1924-1942). Bangemann work includes prints after Slevogt (children's songs, fairy tales), after Max Liebermann (self-portrait and illustrations for Goethe's novella ), after Adolph von Menzel (Frederick the Great ), after Lovis Corinth (self-portrait ), after Eugène Delacroix (The Lion Hunt) and after Constantin Guys (Entry of a Roman Senator). In 1937, his woodcuts Volker, Violinist, Portrait of Gerhart Hauptmann and Portrait of Lovis Corinth from the Bremer Kunsthalle were confiscated and destroyed in the Nazi Degenerate Art campaign.
