Angela Merkel avoids Controversy

This piece of news is from a Finnish news website called ''Helsingin Sanomat'' and was posted on April 12. 2019

 https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006069077.html


The german Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel had decided to renovate her office. This included
taking two paintings down.These two paintings happened to be by Emil Nolden (1867–1951),a
German expressionist painter. At first glance it may just be because of  aesthetic reasons but then
the second reason might be because of Nolden was discovered to have had some anti-semitic
thoughts. Anti-semitism meaning the discrimination or hatred towards Jewish people.
This luckily didn’t spark any serious controversy. The reason these paintings were taken down
might have something to do with the fact that an art gallery in Germany wished to have only
one of the paintings, but when Chancellor Merkel discovered the slightly dark origin of the
paintings, she decided to send both of them to the gallery. Apparently she decided to do this
because of the comments of a person from The New York Times, Felix Krämer, who had
questioned the suitability of the paintings in Merkel’s office. The foundation which owned the
paintings offered the Chancellor two other paintings to replace the ones that were taken to the
art gallery, but it turns out that those paintings were made by another painter  with anti-semitic
thoughts, Karl Schimdt Rottluff. So, of course, she refused.

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