(Berlin) later Sunflowers By Van Gogh, The Grinding wheels Claude Monet was the target of environmental activists on Sunday who threw mashed potatoes at a glass-protected painting displayed in a German museum.
Posted at 4:58 p.m
Updated at 6:28 pm.
“If we take a blackboard with mashed potatoes or tomato soup thrown – for society to remember that the race for fossil fuels is killing us all: then we will give you mashed potatoes on the painting!”, stated the last generation of environmental activists, broadcasting a video of the law.
The Grinding wheels by Monet is in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam and is part of the collection of billionaire Hasso Plattner. The painting, bought at auction in 2019 for $111 million — a record for Monet — is on permanent loan to the museum.
Dressed in orange, the two activists threw mashed potatoes onto the board, the same pose they did with tomato soup on October 14. Sunflowers At the National Gallery, London: Kneeling, back to work, one hand clinging to the wall.
Do you have to throw mashed potatoes at the board to listen? If you struggle to find something to eat, this painting will have no value.
One of the last generation activists
The police arrested two youths.
The painting is protected by glass, which, according to museum experts, has not sustained any damage. The Grinding wheels It will be seen again from Wednesday.
On October 14, two environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s artwork. Sunflowers At the National Gallery in London, there was no damage except for some “minor damage” to the frame.
