The Munich district court has issued penal orders against the climate activists who stuck to a Rubens painting in the Alte Pinakothek in August.

A court spokesman for the German Press Agency confirmed that two of these penal orders were imposed on the two men who were stuck, one against the person who filmed the action.

According to the Munich I public prosecutor's office, which applied for the penal orders, "a significant fine was imposed" in each case, which the spokeswoman for the authority did not, however, quantify.

But it could also be expensive regardless of this: "We will of course assert our claims under civil law," said Tine Nehler, spokeswoman for the Pinakotheken.

According to the public prosecutor, the action in August caused damage of 11,000 euros.

According to the court, one of the two men who was stuck and the filmmaker appealed the penalty order.

This leads to a trial in the district court.

However, the spokesman could not say when that should be.

Initially, no objection had been received against the third penalty order.

Separated from the historical frame with solvents

Two activists from the Last Generation movement had taped themselves to the frame of Peter Paul Rubens' 17th-century painting The Massacre of the Innocents on August 28.

According to the museum, employees of the museum and police officers then had to separate the two men from the historical frame with solvents, which, however, was damaged.

The museum also announced that there was damage to the wall covering.

"It is not legitimate to damage unique cultural evidence of humanity in order to point out the factual climatic problems," said the director general of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Bernhard Maaz, after the action.

"A painting like "The Massacre of the Innocents" and the historical gilded frame are of inestimable cultural and historical value".

Climate activists are currently making headlines with adhesive campaigns or attacks on works of art.

Only on Tuesday was the glass-protected famous painting "Death and Life" by Gustav Klimt in Vienna's Leopold Museum covered with oil.

One of the activists also stuck his hand to the protective glass.

Tomato soup had previously been thrown at the famous work “Sunflowers” ​​by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery in London.

This work was also protected by a pane of glass.

The security service was "sensitized" to Art Cologne, currently the largest art fair in Germany.

Resistance should be increased

The "Last Generation" wants to expand their controversial protests.

"We don't do a popularity contest," say Lina and Solvig Schinköthe from "Letzte Generation" in the podcast "Die Wochentester" of the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" and the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" in conversation with the moderators Wolfgang Bosbach and Christian Rach.

“It is not necessary that we have the majority behind us in the forms of action.

It is our intention to make a difference.” The “Last Generation” is using civil disobedience to achieve more political action against climate change.

To this end, members of the movement stick themselves to the streets, among other things, or throw food at works of art in museums.

"We will continue to offer peaceful civil resistance until action is taken," the activists announce in the podcast.

"We will continue to be creative and do everything we can in a peaceful environment.

We will not stop."