‘Hitler salute’ gnomes invade German
Ninemsm.com.au / AFP
October 15, 2009
A German town was bracing Wednesday for a rally by 1250 garden gnomes with their stubby right arms raised in a Hitler salute “” all in the name of art.
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Artist Ottmar Hoerl, who has already displayed his provocative gnomes in Belgium, Italy and two German art galleries, said the display in Straubing in Bavaria was the first one in public in Germany.
“It is a work that is meant to get people to think, to react,” he told AFP.
The German artist found himself in hot water with his gnomes in July after prosecutors in Nuremberg launched an enquiry into whether displaying one of the diminutive figures in an art gallery was against the law. Continue reading “Garden Gnomes on the March”