Gerda Taro's Leipzig installation vandalized with black paint, police investigate

A public installation featuring conflict images by pioneering war photographer Gerda Taro was vandalized overnight on August 3, 2016, in Leipzig, Germany. Black paint was used to obliterate the photographs, which had been created for the f/stop festival that ran from June 25 to July 3, 2016. Festival organizers suspect political motivation behind the attack, and authorities have launched an investigation. Taro, born in Stuttgart to a Jewish family with roots in Galicia, collaborated with photographer Robert Capa and became the first female photojournalist killed in action while covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The incident was reported by Monopol and The Art Newspaper.