Gold stuck to their hands – superglue remained on the frame of a Cranach picture: In August, two members of the “Last Generation” attacked one of the painter’s most important pictures. Now the public prosecutor wants to go to court.
The public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against a climate activist for a sticking action in the Berlin picture gallery.
The 20-year-old is said to have glued herself with another activist from the Last Generation protest group to the historic wooden frame of a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder with superglue in August, the judicial authority announced on Friday in Berlin. The charge of damage to property was brought before the juvenile court judge at the Tiergarten district court.
Damage to the frame amounted to 2,385 euros. On the website, the picture gallery describes the painting, which was created in 1504, as one of Cranach’s most important works.
The general director of the Berlin Picture Gallery, Dagmar Hirschfelder, pointed out at the time that it was a valuable Renaissance frame that had been purchased in the art trade. Parts of the gilding and paint remained on the hands of the activists. The hardened glue then stuck to the frame itself, said Hirschfelder. The frame had to be restored, it was said.
In a picture that the climate activists published on Twitter in August, two young women can be seen with one hand each on the picture frame. It said: “Mary, Joseph and Jesus were on the way to safe refuge. But humanity is on the fast track to the deadly climate catastrophe.”