GERMAN PAINTER
RETIREMENT FROM ACADEMY,
DECISION ABUSES SURPRISE
BERLIN, Ma 17
Although Professor. Max Liebermann is nearly 87 years, old lie surprised Berlin to-night by rriiiouncing bis resignation from the Prussian Academy of Art. Hq. is Germany’s most famous painter.
It has been said that Professor Lieberinann did fort-Germany what Millet did for France, inasmuch as bis pictures immortalised the most typical figures to be found in- .peasant and industrial life. Herr Liebermann for 30 years was a member of the Prussian Academy and, for 12 years its He considered himself obliged to retire from tile academy because lie was out of sympathy with the artistic and. political conceptions, of. the new Germany.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1933, Page 6
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