Berlin, Europe Brief News- Climate activists threw mashed potatoes on $110 million Monet painting in Germany on Sunday.
The two activists were filmed throwing mashed potato on glass-covered painting by famed artist Claude Monet hanging in a German museum.
The attack is the latest in a string of prized artwork to be attacked with food items to draw attention to climate change.
Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, said Sunday the activists belonged to an environmentalist group called Letzte Generation (which is German for Last Generation), and threw mashed potatoes on Monet’s 1890 painting “Meules.”
The museum said in a statement a preliminary investigation by a conservation team found the painting “was not damaged in any way” because the work is protected by glass.
Video clips posted to social media by Letzte Generation show two individuals throwing a pot of mashed potatoes onto the painting and gluing themselves to the wall below the frame as confused visitors look on.
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The two activists, which Letzte Generation identified only as Mirjam and Benjamin, were taken to jail, the group said in a tweet.
Earlier last week, two climate activists staged a protest in London’s National Gallery, throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
The activists, who are part of the climate change–focused group Just Stop Oil, then glued themselves to the wall under the painting.
