Other art paintings have been degraded by vandalos on Berlin’s famous museum island.
Police said friday night, several teenagers and adults sprayed graffiti on a huge granite bowl at an open-air demonstration at the Altes Museum, one of the city’s most famous museums on Museum Island, an art complex in Berlin’s Old Town.
Two of the suspects were arrested, The Associated Press reported.
Police said vandalism was not related to any previous incidents earlier this month, when nearly 70 ancient artifacts and artwork were sprayed with oily liquid in several of the resort’s museums.
According to Deutsche Welle, local reports called vandalism “one of the greatest attacks on works of art and antiquities in postwar German history. “
Although this happened on October 3, the first day museums opened since March, after final closures amid the coronavirus, the government remained silent for about 3 weeks.
Investigators were unable to locate who the attack was, even after seeing hours of surveillance footage.
On Wednesday, Germany’s Minister of State for Culture Monika Gretters condemned vandalism, saying in one that the act is “directed against the bureaucracy of artistic expression, against the cultural heritage of all of us, against the civil bureaucracy of debate. and therefore opposed to the principles of our own democratic image. “
Friday’s incident, however, appears to involve some political message, police said.
The five museums on the island of museums are among the highest museums in Germany. The cultural complex became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
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