Environmental activists sprayed the protective glass of Klimt's painting in the Vienna museum

Environmental activists sprayed protective glass from the famous work "Death and Life" by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the cultural institution announced.

"Restorers are determining whether the damaged painting is protected by glass," said the administration of that museum in Vienna, adding that the glass was sprayed with black liquid.

The group "Poslednja generationa" (Letzte Generation) took responsibility for that incident.

No other details have been released.

The case is the latest in a series of interventions by environmental activists in several major museums around the world.

Nearly 100 major museums around the world said in a joint statement recently that activists who target works of art "severely underestimate" the damage they can cause.

On November 11, environmental activists tried to glue their hands to the painting "The Scream", a masterpiece by the Norwegian painter Evdard Munch, in the National Museum in Oslo, in order to condemn the oil industry in Norway.

Activists, also environmental, recently spilled tomato soup on the protective glass behind the famous "Sunflowers" by the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh in a museum in London.

Activists in the Berlin museum threw mashed potatoes on the protective glass of the painting "Haystacks" by the French artist Claude Monet.

In the museum in The Hague, activists targeted the painting "Girl with a pearl earring" by the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer.