270:. Krafft responded to the reporting about his beliefs through a combination of confirming them, producing fictional examples in his "defense", and bemoaning that the public was kind to "Jewish sensitivities" and didn't offer the same support to Nazi supporters like himself. With the legitimate art world cutting all ties with him after 2013, Krafft spent several years working on explicitly white nationalist and racist artwork until his debilitating illness and, a few years later, his death.
195:. Spode's technique, however, involved cow bone; Krafft instead substituted human bone, which he had obtained from the wife of a deceased friend who had requested him to make something out of the remains. Since then, Krafft has manufactured a number of funerary memorial porcelain artworks crafted from human
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