20-05-2025
‘Sexist' Venus bronze removed from Berlin government building
Admired by the war criminal Hermann Goering, dumped in a lake by SS troops and now banished from an office building for being sexist, an 18th-century bronze of the Medici Venus has had a chequered history.
The replica of the classical sculpture of the goddess of love covering her nakedness with her hands found favour with the pilot and art thief Goering, who exhibited her in his Carinhall country estate outside Berlin for eight years.
In the dying days of the Second World War, when the SS blew up Carinhall to stop it falling into the hands of the Soviets, she was thrown into a nearby lake, along with other unwieldy art treasures amassed by the Nazi.
After 45 years in the murk of
