BOLZANO, Italy—Franz Pahl, the Italian politician who began a hunger strike in protest of a work of art by Martin Kippenberger, has been hospitalized, ANSA reports. Pahl is the president of Trentino-Alto Adige's regional council and refused to eat for eight days because of Kippenberger's sculpture of a crucified frog. The work depicts the frog holding a mug of beer in one hand and an egg in the other, and went on display at Bolzano's Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art at the end of May. Pahl says the work is offensive to the region's Catholics. Doctors at the hospital say his condition is not serious.