“The grinders” were protected by a window and have not suffered any damage. The activists of Letzte Generation advocate civil disobedience, to force the German and Austrian authorities to take measures against global warming.
Le Monde with AFP
After Van Gogh, Claude Monet. Two environmental activists of the German movement Letzte Generation (“latest generation”, in German) launched, Sunday, October 23, puree on the grinders, from Claude Monet, at the Barberini Museum, in Potsdam, near Berlin.
“If you need a painting – on which we threw puree or tomato soup – to make society remember that the race for fossil fuels kills us all: then we will give you Puree on a painting! “Due the environmental activists, broadcasting a video of the act. Letzte Generation advocates civil disobedience to force German and Austrian federal governments to take measures against global warming.
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The grinders, from Monet, are part of the collection of billionaire Hasso Plattner. The table, bought at auction in 2019 for $ 111 million – a record for a monet – is a permanent loan at the museum.
Dressed in black with orange vests, the two activists threw the puree on the board, before taking the same pose as those who had done the same with tomato soup on October 14 on the sunflowers, from Van Gogh, at the National Gallery in London: on his knees, back at work, a hand stuck on the wall. “Do you have to launch puree on a painting so that you listen? This painting will be worth nothing if we have to fight to find something to eat,” said one of the two activists.
The two young people were arrested by the police. The table was protected by a window, said the museum, adding that, according to the experts, it had not suffered any damage. The grinders will be visible again from Wednesday.
series of actions
As part of their series of actions started at the beginning of October against the exploitation of hydrocarbons, two environmental activists of the Just Stop Oil movement threw, on October 14, from the tomato soup on the leader- Work by Van Gogh Les Tournesols at the National Gallery in London, who had not suffered any damage, apart from a few “minor damage” on the frame. They appeared on September 15 before a London court, accused of degradations for an amount of less than 5,000 pounds. The judge put them in freedom on the condition that they do not enter any museum or gallery, and no longer use painting or adhesive substance in public space. Their trial is set for December 13.
Two days later, activists from Just Stop Oil attacked a concession from the Aston Martin Luxury Automobile brand in the center of London. The next day, on October 17, two other activists from Just Stop Oil climbed the Queen Elizabeth II motorway bridge over the Thames, near London, causing important traffic jams.
Friday, a dozen activists from the Rébellion Extinction Movement (XR) took an action at the Paris Motor Show in Paris, some briefly sticking to sports cars, to denounce the “model of the individual car” always Promoted by industry, they explained in a press release.