Climate activists have attacked a painting by Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid before another glued himself to its frame.
Members of the group Last Generation Austria attacked the 1915 painting Death And Life at the Leopold Museum in Vienna to protest their government’s use of fossil energies.
After throwing the liquid on the painting – which was not damaged because it was behind a glass cover – one activist was pushed away by a museum guard while another glued his hand to the painting’s frame.
On Twitter the group defended the action, saying that they were protesting “oil and gas drilling”, which they called “a death sentence to society”.
