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The painting from the Austrian master was lost in 1964 after it had been taken from its original Jewish owners by the Nazi regime.
Climate activists from the group 'Letzte Generation Österreich' (Last Generation Austria) pour black liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's masterpiece "Death and Life" at Vienna's Leopold Museum. "Restorers are working to determine whether the painting, protected by glass, has been damaged" said museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny.
Vienna's famous Leopold Museum settled a long-running feud over five Nazi-plundered drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele with the descendants of the works' Jewish former owner.
The last portrait painted by Gustav Klimt has been sold in London for £74 million ($94.3 million). The celebrated Austrian symbolist's "Dame mit Facher" (Lady with a Fan) set a new European art auction record. Described as a "beautiful, rich and alluring portrait of an unnamed woman", the portrait was found on his easel in his studio when he died unexpectedly in February 1918 aged 55.
The final work by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has fetched €86 million at auction setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe.
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