Famous designer supports Ukraine with an accessory featuring works taken by the occupiers from Kherson

The famous German designer and stylist Frank Wilde has once again expressed his support for Ukraine by using an accessory in his look that reproduces a work of art stolen by Russians from the Kherson Art Museum.

As reported on the museum's website, Wilde tied a silk ribbon (twillie) around his neck from the Stolen Art charity collection created by the Ukrainian brand OLIZ in cooperation with the United24 platform. The accessory features the decorative painting "Cossacks Rising to the World" by Vira Semeniuk, which was taken by the Russians during the occupation.

Frank Wilde is known for his daily flash mob on social media. Since the outbreak of full-scale war, he has been posting photos of himself in blue and yellow clothes, embroidered shirts, or other Ukrainian attributes every day, demonstrating solidarity with our country.

It is worth adding that according to the Kherson Art Museum, more than 10,000 museum items were stolen by the Russian invaders. Among the stolen items are not only paintings, but also graphic works and 12 sculptures, including a majolica by Mikhail Vrubel.

In addition, the museum estimated that the invaders took more than 10 paintings depicting children as the main characters from their collection.

Two paintings by unknown artists, Portrait of a Boy and Portrait of a Clergyman and a Boy, were stolen.

A work by Louis Toussaint, Children at the Window, was also stolen from the collection of the Kherson Museum, painted in oils in 1861.

The occupiers also stole paintings by Maria Shanks "Temptation", Kiriak Kostandi "The Artist's Family" and Brevio Joshua "Motherhood" from the museum.

The occupiers also stole a painting by artist Hryhorii Melikhov titled "Musical Morning", which was painted in oil on canvas in 1981, and others.

In addition, the occupiers boast not only of the looted paintings, but also of what their hands did not have time to reach. For example, the St. Petersburg Russian Museum held an online campaign called "The Artist and the War." The almost two-hour-long video, which combines individual stories from different museums, also featured the occupation version of the Kherson Art Museum. And the "Kherson part" of the video opened with a work that the occupiers do not have - "Nameless Height" by Vasyl Bozhenko.

Ірина Глухова