Environmental activists from different collectives continue their wild actions: on November 15, Last Generation members sprayed the famous painting Death and Life by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in Vienna.
The famous Death and Life painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was sprayed with a black liquid on November 15 by climate activists, announced the Leopold Museum in Vienna. We see two men vandalizing the work, one sticking his hand to the window, before being neutralized by an employee. “Stop the destruction [de l’humanité] by fossil fuels. We are rushing into climatic hell”they shouted.
????️URGENT: Klimt’s “Death and Life” in the Leopold Museum covered in oil????️
People of the last generation poured oil on the Klimt painting “Death and Life” in the Leopold Museum today. New oil and gas wells are a death sentence for humanity. pic.twitter.com/4QKAklB9Af
— Last Generation Austria (@lastgenAT) November 15, 2022
“Conservators are hard at work determining if the painting protected by ice has been damaged”spokesman Klaus Pokorny told AFP, while the group Letzte Generation (Last generation) claimed responsibility by posting images on Twitter.
Several other actions of this type have been carried out in recent weeks by environmental activists, who have targeted emblematic buildings, but also famous works of art in several cities in Europe.
For example, on November 5, two environmental activists stuck their hands on Francisco Goya’s picture frames at the Prado Museum in Madrid to draw attention to global warming. At the end of October, environmental activists had targeted the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer.