The Städel Museum estimates the damage caused by climate activists just over three months ago when they glued themselves to the frame of a painting at 7,000 euros.
That said Pamela Rohde, spokeswoman for the museum, when asked.
The museum is therefore now demanding compensation in this amount.
On August 24, two activists from the group “Last Generation” glued themselves to the painting “Thunderstormed Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe” by French artist Nicolas Poussin.
In doing so, they had caused damage to the gilded frame of the painting from 1651, as the Städel announced at the time.
"We have filed a complaint for damage to property and trespassing, and this is of course accompanied by a claim for damages," says Rohde.
105 preliminary investigations against the “Last Generation”
The Städel filed the complaint shortly after the climate activists' protest.
However, the extent of the damage was still unknown at the time.
The gilded frame has since been restored and the damage repaired professionally, says Rohde.
The painting itself was not damaged.
Not only the Städel is taking legal action against the “last generation”.
The state protection of the Frankfurt police have also been investigating 105 environmental activists of the group since April 2022, says Nadja Niesen, spokeswoman for the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office.
The subject of the proceedings are protest actions in the period from April 6 to August 24 on a total of ten days.
"Predominantly, the preliminary investigations were initiated on suspicion of property damage or coercion," said Niesen.
Because the accused activists had also spread an oily liquid on streets and paths during several actions in the Frankfurt city area and as a result cyclists fell, some of whom were seriously injured, the public prosecutor's office also announced that the suspected serious bodily harm was being investigated.
However, the majority of the proceedings have not yet been completed, it said.