Works in Progress: Dr. David Ehrenpreis

"Vision and Sacrifice: Philipp Otto Runge's Fall of the Fatherland"

In this talk, the second of MAHSA's "Works in Progress" series, Dr. David Ehrenpreis will dive into the iconography and formal elements of a little known drawing by Philipp Otto Runge titled "Fall of the Fatherland." He will demonstrate how this drawing strives towards a new vision of art, allowing for a multiplicity of references and meanings to cohabitate and fuse together within the confines of the composition.

David Ehrenpreis is Professor of Art History at James Madison University and has published widely in journals including the Zeitschrift for Kunstgeschichte, Woman's Art Journal, and Art Book. He is author of the book Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City since 1828, which examines the shifting visions of place and community in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The curator of numerous exhibitions including a survey of Chinese artist Xu Bing, his current book project is entitled "Dying for the Nation: The Life of Monuments and the Burden of History."

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