Climate Activists Throw Liquid At Klimt Painting in Vienna

Austrian activists of "last generation Austria" have splashed a Gustav Klimt painting with oil in the Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Nov.15, 2022. The painting is behind a glass cover and was unharmed. (AP Photo/Letzte Generation Oesterreich)

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By Associated Press

November 15, 2022 at 11:42 AM UTC

Updated on

November 15, 2022 at 2:23 PM UTC

Berlin (AP) -- Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting's frame.

Members of the group Last Generation Austria tweeted they had targeted the 1915 painting “Death and Life” at the Leopold Museum in Vienna to protest their government's use of fossil energies.