Professor Max Liebermann Named Vice-chancellor of Art and Science Order

Professor Max Liebermann, internationally renowned Jewish artist and honorary president of the Prussian Academy of Art was yesterday elected Vice-Chancellor of the Knights of the Order of Merit for Science and Art.

Professor Liebermann, who is eighty-five years old, is Dean of German painters and an outstanding exponent of German impressionism.

Last May, Professor Liebermann resigned as president of the Prussian Academy of Art, a position which he had held for sixteen years and to which he had been elected for life. At the time it was thought that Nazi