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Proposing the establishment of an Institute of German Studies at Harvard, centralizing all the University's teaching and research in German arts and letters, the wish was voiced today in the annual report of Charles L. Kuhn Curator of the Germanic Museum.
"The rapid increase in the number of German scholars in this country, it is safe to predict, will stimulate a greater interest in Germanic scholarship than has ever existed in the past," Dr. Kuhn said.
The current exhibition at the Germanic Museum consists of works by the great German impressionist, Levis Corinth. Corinth, along with Slevogt and Liebermann, led the revolt in Germany against aenemic classicism and romanticism of late nineteenth century German academic painting.
In the prints, drawings, watercolours, and oils exhibited at the Germanic Museum, one can see clearly the richness of the imagination of this artist and his enormous creative facility. The brilliant pigment is broadly handled and fluid in the manner of the impressionists but with a depth of vision never...
Many pieces in the group which are being exhibited are replicas of objects acquired by museums abroad and in America. Among these are copies of a teapot and a water jug, now in the Danish Museum at Copenhagen; of a candle-labrum and bonbon dish, in the Metropolitan Museum of...