Woman damages art works at Berlin exhibition
@hotmail.com Heinrich
23 September 2004
BERLIN - A woman visitor to a controversial Berlin art exhibition had
damaged two works of art in an apparent protest action, police said
Thursday.
The incident happened Wednesday evening on the first day of the
exhibition of modern art of collector Friedrich Christian Flick, grandson of
Nazi industrialist Friedrich Flick.
The woman, whom a police spokesman said had a record of assault and
damaging property, began trampling an art work until it was broken. She then
proceeded to trample on another art work.
A report in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel said that the woman shouted
after she had damaged the first art work, "Flick, now I forgive you". Police
confirmed the newspaper's account.
The exhibition was officially opened Tuesday evening by Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder, but was first opened to the public on Wednesday.
Controversy had surrounded the exhibition, which is set to run for
seven years in showing the vast collection of modern and contemporary art
collected by Flick.
Opponents called the Friedrich Christian Flick collection tainted,
arguing it had been acquired from money he inherited from his grandfather's
fortune, made during the Nazi era from factories filled with slave
labourers.
Backers of the exhibition argued that Friedrich Christian Flick, born
in 1944, could not be held accountable for the deeds of his grandfather and
that the art show could help the country deal with the dark chapter in its
history.
Norma
"Heinrich" <Heinrich @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This sound very deranged. What is going on in this world. The "sins of the
father" can be carried just so far. Norma
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@hotmail.com Heinrich
"Norma" <norm...@charter.net> schreef in bericht
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a bag of potatoes in 1568 so i have to be punished for that. the human kind
is deterriorating to a critical level