16 January 1916 My dear Irma! Received your mail in the trench this morning, newspaper and package. Made me very happy. Now I will eat ‘high on the hog’ [ich werde hohe Tafel halten] and, while doing so, I keep thinking how beautiful it would be if only we could do this at home. Thousand greetings to you. Your Otto
Art student Otto Schubert (1892-1970) was 22 years old when he was drafted into the war. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma.
…All pictures extracted from Postcards from the Trenches: A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War by Irene Guenther, published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
(“World War One: Painted postcards sent from the trenches,” https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46098878, 11-8-18)
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