While the Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler’s organ today termed Professor Max Liebermann “as a Marxist artist,” other newspapers in Germany paid high tribute to Liebermann’s memory.
The Frankfurter Zeitung carries an article by the famous art critic Ernst Benkard, that Professor Liebermann’s works will last and his name will never be forgotten as one of the greatest exponents of German art.”
The Voelkischer Beobachter describes Professor Liebermann’s works as “remote from racial conception” and as “over estimated.” The Nazi paper aserts that in recent years Professor Liebermann’s paintings became “increasingly empty.” The paper also claims that Professor Liebermann opened the Prussian Art Academy to decadent influences in art at the time he was president of the Academy.
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