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Family, friends and former students remembered the late Max Loehr, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus, at a service in Memorial Church yesterday...
Eight speakers recalled their memories of Loehr, a distinguished scholar of Chinese art, who died on September...
...scholar without peer in Chinese art...of noble and elegant bearing, a gentle and civil man, a man of great dignity," said Robert Maeda, a former student of Loehr's at the University of Michigan and Harvard...
...Loehr's greates qualities was "his feeling that Chinese art was understandable, but in the end there was a quality in it that was always mysterious and unknowable...As a teacher he came as close to the work of art as we could hope for," said Maeda...
...native German, educated at the University of Munich, Loehr taught Oriental art in China, Munich and Michigan, before being appointed Harvard's first Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art in 1960 and curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Art Museum, posts he held until his retirement...