Friday, December 7, 2012

Outrageous! Swedish artist causes uproar by using ashes of Holocaust victims to make painting� - NY Daily News

Outrageous! Swedish artist causes uproar by using ashes of Holocaust victims to make painting� - NY Daily News: A Swedish artist caused an uproar when he unveiled a painting filled with barbarous brushstrokes made from the ashes of incinerated Nazi death camp victims.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff claimed he stole the ashes while touring the Majdanek camp in 1989, mixed them with water, and used the concoction to paint a series of gray streaks on the painting.