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A German soldier´s intimate view of the First World War, told through a series of hand-painted post-cards sent from the trenches by an important German artist to his sweetheart.

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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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Acknowledgments
Preface

1. The Great War and the Uses of Art
2. German Artists and the Great War
3. The Life and Art of Otto Schubert
PostscriptThe Artworks

List of Illustrations
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

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Postcards from the Trenches comprises Guenther´s exhaustive research and Schubert´s extraordinary art ... A hundred years on from the Armistice, these intimate and exquisite mementoes stand as a testament to what Schubert saw and heard, experienced and endured. They showcase his talent, demonstrate his love and enlarge our understanding of a war that was supposed to end all wars. The Herald

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