According to a report by Breitbart, the German activist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) aimed Monet’s “Les Meules” with containers of mashed potatoes.
October 27, 2022
The activists walked into the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, strode over to the painting, drenched the 130-year-old painting with a reported worth of $111 million with the potatoes, then quickly sat down, applied glue to their hands, then stuck their hands to the wall.
October 27, 2022
According to Der Tagesspiegel, while the pair were glued to the wall, one protester, Mirjam Herrmann, yelled at visitors to the museum, saying, “People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe.” “Science says we won’t be able to feed our families by 2050.” “This painting will be worth nothing if we have to fight over food.”
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The Letzte Generation tweeted on Sunday saying, “If it takes a painting - with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it - to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all: Then we’ll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting!”
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The Red State Observer posted the German climate activist group took credit for the attack on the painting on Sunday.
The museum director, Ortrud Westheider, said, “While I understand the activists’ urgent concern in the face of the climate catastrophe, I am shocked by the means with which they are trying to lend weight to their demands.”
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A museum official told Der Tagesspiegel the activists were quickly unglued from the wall.
Ursula Nonnemacher, leader of the Brandenburg Green Party, posted on Twitter, saying, “The fight against the climate crisis is not strengthened by attacks on famous paintings. On the contrary, we need broad social consensus.”
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A similar protest occurred in London, England, involving Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” Like the protest in Germany, the two climate extremists doused the famous painting valued at $85 million with tomato soup. Two activists from “Just Stop Oil’ were involved in the incident.
Neither the Monet nor Van Gogh paintings were permanently damaged in both incidents. Both paintings had a glass pane covering the artwork.
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