Carl Michael von Hausswolff says he used ashes of Holocaust victims to create a very macabre painting. The Swedish artist maintains that he stole the ashes during a tour of a concentration camp, the Inquisitr website reports today (December 8, 2012).
The thought that human ashes may have been used in such a manner has caused an international uproar and backlash against the artist. Jewish leaders consider the painting an act of desecration.
The Swedish artist claims he stole the ashes of Holocaust victims while visiting the Majdanek concentration camp in 1989. Carl Michael von Hausswolff said that he mixed the ashes of those who were killed at the camp during World War II with water and then used material to paint a series of gray streaks onto the painting.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York City head Abraham Foxman said this about the painting: "The use of human remains as art is disrespectful and offensive, period, but what makes this so much worse is that Carl Michael von Hausswolff is also doing it at the expense of Hitler's victims."
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