It took exactly a year to the day for the case of the convicted Austrian artist Helmut Kand to reach the Vienna City Council. The city in which a painting by the 77-year-old adorns an entire facade, a “Grätzl landmark”, as the then housing councilor and current mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) on the occasion of the renovation in 2015. And the city in which Kand was convicted before the regional criminal court on November 14, 2023 because he had lured young women to his Vienna studio via online advertisements and under the pretext of creating art and sexually abused them there. The final verdict was a nine-month suspended prison sentence followed by a three-year probation for violating sexual self-determination in two cases.