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Postcards from the Trenches A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War 1st Edition

Author(s)

Irene Guenther

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1st Edition

ISBN

9781350015777, 9781350015753

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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PDF and EPUB

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German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert’s war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert’s haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man’s token of love and longing and a soldier’s testimony of the Great War.

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Postcards from the Trenches A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War 1st Edition

SKU: 9781350015760

Original price was: $36.00.Current price is: $10.80.

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Full Title

Postcards from the Trenches A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War 1st Edition

Author(s)

Irene Guenther

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781350015760, 9781350015753

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert’s war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert’s haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man’s token of love and longing and a soldier’s testimony of the Great War.