TY  - BOOK
AU  - Epple,Bernhard
AU  - Heisler,Barbara Schmitter
TI  - An Artist as Soldier: seeking refuge in love and art 
T2  - American University Studies I: Germanic Languages and Literature,
SN  - 9781433135118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - D811 .E684 2017
U1  - 940.54/1343092 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Epple, Bernhard,
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, German
KW  - Art and the war
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Germany
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Artists
KW  - Art teachers
KW  - Young men
KW  - Husbands
KW  - German letters
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Berlin Prize Fellow
KW  - Class of Spring 1999
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292); Introduction: War Letters -- Chapter I: The Feldpost letters of Bernhard Epple to his Wife Gudrun -- Chapter II: 1940-1942, the Early War Years -- Chapter III: 1943-1945 -- Postscript: Author's Note
N2  - "This book is about a collection of one hundred letters written by German artist Bernhard Epple to his wife Gudrun between 1940 and 1945. Unlike many war letters, Epple's letters tell us little about the war, about battles won or lost. Although they are deeply personal, they provide insights into how a particular young man dealt with the war. They reveal Epple's struggles as an involuntary conscripted soldier and his attempts to remain a civilian in uniform. As an artist and art teacher, he tried to distance himself mentally from the war, finding some refuge in art, purchasing art books and visiting local museums and churches whenever possible and most important, in drawing the sketches that decorate the letters to his wife, herself an artist"--Introduction
ER  -