Believer Took me over like a fever Caught you hiding in the smoke, smoke, smoke Like a meteor, I glow, glow, glow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Burning"
The image is a recreation of Gustav Klimt's "Medicine" by the Factum Arte Foundation:
"Medicine, painted by Gustav Klimt for the University of Vienna ceiling, was destroyed by retreating Nazi troops in 1945 alongside two other paintings from the same series, Philosophy and Jurisprudence. At the time, the allegorical depiction of Hygeia, Greek goddess of health and hygiene, as a figure of life and death was a radical departure from typical representations. The artist was attacked for this representation and for the nudity and excess of his paintings, which were never displayed in the university. However, although the paintings themselves were destroyed, a number of preparatory sketches for Medicine as well as one good black-and-white image survive.
On May 7 1945, a retreating SS unit arrived at Immendorf. Germany had surrendered earlier that morning and for these SS men, this was the last night of the war. Apparently Klimtâs paintings, along with many other works of art, were supposedly on view in the apartments and the Nazis, the castle's owner later reported, looked at the paintings with appreciation. One was heard to say that it would be a "sin" for the Russians to get their hands on them. According to a 1946 police report, the SS officers "held orgies all night in the castle apartments", before laying explosives in Immendorfâs four towers, a booby trap for the advancing Red Army. The Schloss exploded into flames when the Russians arrived and continued to burn for several days. It is believed, but was never confirmed, that Medicine and the other University paintings perished in the inferno."
