The Munich court has issued criminal orders against climate activists who detained a painting by Rubens in the Alte Pinakothek in August. A court spokesman for the German news agency confirmed that two of these punishment orders have been imposed on the two men detained, one against the person who filmed the action.
According to the Munich I public prosecutor’s office, which applied for the punishment orders, “a substantial fine was imposed in any case”, which the authority’s spokeswoman did not quantify, however. But it can nevertheless also be expensive: “We will of course enforce our claims under civil law,” says Tine Nehler, spokeswoman for the Pinakotheken.
The damage amounts to 11,000 euros
According to the public prosecutor, the action in August caused damage of 11,000 euros. According to the court, one of the two men who were detained and the filmmaker appealed against the sentence. This leads to a lawsuit before the subdistrict court. However, the spokesman could not say when that should be. Initially, no objection was lodged against the third penalty order.
Historical list damaged
On August 28, two activists of the Last Generation movement tacked themselves onto the frame of Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th-century painting The Massacre of the Innocents. According to the museum, museum employees and police officers then had to use solvents to separate the two men from the historic frame, which, however, was damaged. The museum also announced that there was damage to the wall covering.
“It is not legitimate to damage unique cultural evidence of humanity in order to point to the actual climate problems,” the director general of the Bavarian State Painter Collections, Bernhard Maaz, said after the action. “A painting like ‘The Massacre of the Innocents’ and the historic gilded frame are of inestimable cultural-historical value.”
Climate protests involving food and glue are on the rise
Climate activists are currently making headlines with pasting campaigns or attacks on works of art. Only Tuesday, the glass-protected famous painting “Death and Life” by Gustav Klimt in Vienna’s Leopold Museum was covered in oil. One of the activists also put his hand on the protective glass. Tomato soup was previously pitched to the famous work “Sunflowers” by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery in London. This work was also protected by a window. At Art Cologne, currently Germany’s largest art fair, the security service was “sensitized”.
Source: Krone
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