Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War

ISBN-13: 9781350015753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

USA) Professor Irene Guenther (University of Houston

Opis

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.

Recenzje

[Guenther] pursues the larger project of rescuing a German expressionist painter from oblivion . The book recounts [Schubert's] life and reproduces artwork from its many phases (at considerable cost and to great effect). Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

AcknowledgmentsPreface1. The Great War and the Uses of Art2. German Artists and the Great War3. The Life and Art of Otto SchubertPostscriptThe ArtworksList of IllustrationsEndnotesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Irene Guenther is Instructional Professor of 20th-century European and American History at The Honors College, University of Houston, USA and recipient of the University of Houston's Provost Teaching Excellence Award and The Honors College Student Board's Distinguished Teaching Award. She is the author of Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier's Testimony of the Great War and Nazi "Chic"? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich.