Art Gallery Fires Employee for Hanging His Own Artwork

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An art gallery in Germany has fired an employee who hung up his own artwork in a bid for glory and banned him from the exhibition for life.

An art gallery in Germany has fired an employee who hung up his own artwork in a bid for glory and banned him from the exhibition for life. Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne, which exhibits some world-famous works from the likes of Picasso, Dali, Warhol and Kandinsky, immediately dismissed the 51-year-old staff member after it was discovered he had drilled fresh holes in the gallery wall.

He mounted a 23x47-inch artwork in one of the modern art museum's hallways - but gallery officials said it was spotted and removed within just eight hours. 'The supervisors notice something like this immediately,' spokesperson Tine Nehler told German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 'The employee considers himself as an artist and most likely saw his role in the museum's installation team as a day job to support his true calling,' the gallery told The Guardia

 

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