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Eberhard Berent and Paul Lott
Two Major Gifts for the Humanities
Inspired by their dedication to art and culture, two friends of NYU in Germany found creative ways to make generous gifts to the University. Eberhard Berent, professor emeritus of German at NYU, made a commitment to establish the Eberhard Berent Professor of Goethe in NYU's Department of German, and Paul Lott established the Paul Lott Lectureship and Fellowship Fund at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.
Berent is making his contribution through a combination of life income gifts, which will provide him with tax-free income throughout his lifetime, and a bequest. "I wanted to devote my money to something meaningful," says Berent, who taught at NYU from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1987. "The age of Goethe was the high period of German literature, and having a chair in Goethe will be a real boost for the Department of German at NYU."
Lott is supporting his named lectureship at the IFA through a combination of cash gifts and a charitable distribution through his IRA, and will fund his fellowships through a bequest. Although his career background is in tax and finance, he wanted to support fine art because of the positive influence it has played in his life. "I hope my lectureship will give students an insight into the working of an artist," Lott says. "It will focus on ideas, not just the painters and their technique, but what is behind them."
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