Elizabeth Prelinger serves as the Keyser Family Professor of Art History and chair of the department of art and art history at Georgetown University, where she has taught for over three decades. Prelinger has written exhibition catalogs, articles, and book reviews, in addition to lecturing around the world. She has worked on a variety of subjects, including Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz (whose work is part of The Anxious Eye), and the Nabis, with an emphasis on the graphic arts. Prelinger has curated many exhibitions, including two with the National Gallery: Käthe Kollwitz (1992) and Edvard Munch: Master Prints (2010).
How did German Expressionism shatter artistic conventions? Join us in The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy for a talk by scholar Elizabeth Prelinger and exhibition curator Shelley Langdale. Through their bold, inventive art, the exhibition artists sought to interpret the dramatic changes in the world around them during the tumultuous historical period 1900–1920, marked by world war and revolution. New scholarship following the recent World War I centenary adds depth to our understanding of the German expressionists and their artistic heirs.