Another painting targeted by environmental activists

Two environmental activists cast a painting of a series grinding wheelsAnd the Painter Claude Monet, on Sunday, at a German gallery, barely a week after a similar stunt in the UK.

The activists, two members of the Letzte Generation group, can be seen in a video that went viral on the Internet throwing mashed potatoes onto the canvas on display at the Barberini Museum, before going to put one hand on the wall.

“We are in a climate catastrophe and all you fear is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a table,” then exasperated in Germany, an activist, at the addresses of people in the showroom and a partner filming the scene.

This was in reference to a nearly similar move last week at the National Gallery in London, where activists doused the painting with tomato soup. sunflower by Van Gogh.

Minister Barberini said on his Twitter account that, like the Van Gogh painting, the Claude Monet painting that was vandalized on Sunday was protected by glass, so as not to be damaged. It will be possible to display it in public again from Wednesday.