American art museum condemns use of its art by German far-right party.
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.
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. A spokesman for the Berlin branch of the AfD called the museum's request"a futile attempt to gag the AfD."
The AfD and other far-right groups have blamed Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow in hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan for multiple social problems.
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