The action in the Leopold museum in Vienna was claimed by the group “Letzte Generation” (“Last generation”).
Le Monde with AFP
The famous dead painter and life of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was sprayed with a black liquid by climate activists, the Leopold Museum in Vienna announced on Tuesday, November 15. “The restaurateurs are at work to determine if the paint protected by an ice cream has been damaged,” said spokesperson Klaus Pokorny, while the group “Letzte Generation” (latest generation) claimed the action on Twitter Distributing images of the action.
🛢️eilt: Klimt’s “Tod und Leben” Im Leopold Museum Mit Öl überschüttet🛢️
Menschen der Letzten Generation Haben Heut… https://t.co/cgrnxoqvpe
Several other actions of this type have been carried out in recent weeks by climate activists, who have targeted emblematic buildings, but also famous works of art in several European cities.
Ecologists activists tried without success in Oslo Friday to stick their hands on the cry, the emblematic masterpiece of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, to denounce the petroleum industry in Norway.
At the beginning of the month, two activists of “Last Generation” had spread potato puree on the glass protecting the canvas of Claude Monet the grinders, at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, in Germany.
Activists also stuck on the glass protecting the girl to the pearl of Johannes Vermeer in a museum in the Netherlands. Others threw soup on the one that protected Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflowers at the National Gallery of London.