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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.
After throwing the liquid on the painting, which wasn't damaged, one activist was pushed away by a museum guard while another glued his hand to the glass over the painting's frame.
The group defended the protest, saying in a tweet that they were protesting "oil and gas drilling," which they called "a death sentence to society."
In a video of the incident, which the group posted online, one of the activists can be heard shouting that "we have known about the problem for 50 years -- we must finally act, otherwise the planet will be broken."
"Stop the fossil fuel destruction. We are racing into a climate hell," he added.
After the attack, police arrived at the museum and the black liquid was quickly cleaned off the glass protecting the painting, Austria Press Agency reported.
Despite thorough controls at the museum's entrance, the activists succeeded in bringing the liquid inside by hiding it in a hot water bottle under their clothes, the agency reported.
The museum's restoration team said later that while the painting itself hadn't been harmed, the damage to the glass and security framing, as well as to the wall and floor, was "evident and significant," APA reported.
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of the Leopold Museum, told APA that the concerns of the climate activists were justified, "but attacking works of art is definitely the wrong way to implement the targeted goal of preventing the predicted climate collapse."
He appealed to the group to find other ways to make their concerns known.
Austria's culture minister also expressed understanding for "the concerns and also the desperation" of the activists, but criticized their form of protest.
"I do not believe that actions like these are purposeful, because the question arises whether they do not rather lead to more lack of understanding than to more awareness of the climate catastrophe," Andrea Mayer said.
"From my point of view, accepting the risk of irrevocable damage to works of art is the wrong way to go," the minister added. "Art and culture are allies in the fight against climate catastrophe, not adversaries."
The Klimt work is an oil on canvas painting in the Art Nouveau style depicting death on the left side and a group of partially naked, hugging people on the right side. It's one of the latest pieces of art to be targeted by climate activists to draw attention to global warming.
Different activist groups have staged numerous demonstrations in recent months, including blocking streets and throwing mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in Germany.
The British group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery last month.
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