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2019-05-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

U.S. museum demands German anti-Islam party stop using 19th-century "Slave Market" painting

[CBS] Berlin -- An American art museum is demanding that a German far-right party stop using one of its paintings, portraying a 19th-century slave auction, in a campaign poster for the European elections.

"We are strongly opposed to the use of this work to advance any political agenda," Olivier Meslay, the director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, told The Associated Press. "We did not supply the painting to the AfD," he said, using the acronym for the party Alternative for Germany.

The 1866 oil-on-canvas painting "Slave Market," by Jean-Leon Gerome, shows a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman with much lighter skin to a group of men for examination.

The AfD's Berlin branch said they put up 30 posters of the painting across the German capital with the slogan: "So that Europe won't become Eurabia."

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The party, known for its anti-Muslim stance, said it won't take down any of the posters.

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#1 1866 - I'm afraid it's public use now

Posted by Frank G 2019-05-17 07:29|| 2019-05-17 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Or, stop depicting Pizzylam in honest historical context.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-05-17 07:39|| 2019-05-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait until they find out about the Barbary pirates taking white slaves from all over Europe.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-05-17 10:53|| 2019-05-17 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 CBS has a photo of the actual advertisement at a bus stop

Posted by trailing wife 2019-05-17 13:00|| 2019-05-17 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Use for commentary.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-05-17 17:33|| 2019-05-17 17:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, some people want to forget the 'Religion of Peace' was stopped at Vienna in 1683 by an allied army of Europe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-05-17 18:45|| 2019-05-17 18:45|| Front Page Top

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