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An Artist as Soldier - Seeking Refuge in Love and Art (Hardcover, New edition)
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An Artist as Soldier - Seeking Refuge in Love and Art (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 114
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At the center of this book are the World War II letters
(Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife.
While Bernhard Epple's letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of
the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions,
the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors
from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is
lovingly decorated with a drawing and the letters make few
references to the war itself. In addition to many personal
communications and expressions of love for his wife and children,
Epple writes about landscapes he saw as well as churches, museums
and bookstores he visited. Epple's letters give testimony to how a
particular German soldier who was drafted and survived the war did
his best to remain a civilian in uniform; distancing himself from a
reality that was not of his choosing, seeking comfort and refuge in
his love for art and his ability to share this love with his wife,
herself an artist. While Epple's letters are deeply personal, this
book is about the human experience of war and the separation from
civilian life and from family and friends. The introduction
provides a short discussion of the importance and uses of war
letters as historical documents, followed by a biography of the
letter writer. The letters make up the two central chapters. e
drawings form an integral part of the letters; each is reproduced
and accompanied by an English translation of the letter. In
addition to the drawings, the text includes several photographs of
the letter writer and his family.
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