• Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    The Chapman Brothers have been buying, stealing, and defacing Hitler's art since 2008. I think they may have at one point even snuck into a gallery and painted over something before anyone could catch them. Art dealers are now doing whatever they can to avoid them any time one of Hitler's pieces goes up for sale, so they've resorted to using 3rd. parties and pseudonyms to acquire his stuff.

    They routinely get death threats from neo-nazis, of course.

    • bigbrowncommie69 [any]
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      2 months ago

      Does the canvas really need to be defaced? Hitler arguably did that already when he painted on them.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      The Chapman Brothers have been buying, stealing, and defacing Hitler's art since 2008

      This is objectively a good thing, but given their other shitty work, I really really doubt they do this out of any sincere beliefs or principles. They’re just edgelords.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        For sure. They're bourgeois contrarians from TERF Island. At least they stopped vandalizing Goya's work.