AfD ‘Slave Market’ poster raises hackles

April 26, 2019   

(AFP) A European elections campaign poster by Germany’s AfD featuring a 19th-century painting called “The Slave Market” has raised hackles, with a US art museum demanding that the far-right party withdraw the advert.

The Berlin chapter of Germany’s anti-immigration party has featured in its campaign poster the 1866 painting of turban-wearing and bearded men scrutinising a naked woman, along with the slogans “Europeans vote AfD,” “so that Europe doesn’t become ‘Eurabic.'”

But the Massachusetts-based Clark Art Institute, which owns the painting by French artist Jean-Leon Gerome, has protested against the use of the work after seeing the AfD poster on Twitter.

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