Max Loehr

Max Loehr at Michigan, 1955

Max Loehr (4 December 1903 - 16 September 1988) was an art historian and professor of Chinese art at Harvard University from 1960 to 1974. As an authority on Chinese art, Professor Loehr published eight books and numerous articles on Chinese bronzes, jades and ancient Chinese painting.

Biography

Max Loehr was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, in 1903. He entered the University of Munich in 1931, where he studied Far Eastern art and obtained his PhD in 1936. Then he worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Munich on the Asian collections. In 1940 Max went to Beijing to study at the Sino-German Institute, then he served as director of the institute and as assistant professor at Tsinghua University. In 1949 he returned to his former post in Munich and two years after that he moved to the United States to become a professor at the University of Michigan. In 1960, Max accepted the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chair in East Asian Art at Harvard University and took a post as curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Museum until his retirement in 1974. He died in 1988, at Nashua, N.H.^[1]

Bibliography

Books by Max Loehr

• Chinese Landscape Woodcuts: From an Imperial Commentary to the Tenth-Century Printed Edition of the Buddhist Canon (1968) Harvard University Press.
• Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China (1974) New York: Asia Society Inc.
• The Great Painters of China (1980) Oxford: Phaidon Press.

Articles by Max Loehr

• Germany's Contemporary Painters The XXth Century: Shanghai, volume 5, no. 1, July 1943, p. 58 available online at: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/russian/XX/PDF/6-Volume5.pdf

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