Controversy
In 2005 Richter, in an interview by the German political magazine Der Spiegel, wondered why citizens of Salzburg did not protest against a sculpture by Markus Lüpertz, and described the work as expressing the deprivation of public art sponsorship in Germany. The sculpture, declared as a homage to Mozart by its creator, was promptly attacked by a right-wing art activist from Austria and badly damaged. The statue depicted a grotesque nude figure with both male and female features and was characterized as pornography by the two elderly men prosecuted for the vandalism during which they painted over it and stuck feathers onto it.
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