This is one for the history books!
Well, at least the art history books.
This German artist was fired from his job at a museum because he was discovered secretly sneaking in his own artwork to hang in the galleries.
Yeah, apparently that's frowned upon.
According to Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the self-proclaimed freelance artist was a 51-year-old man who worked in technical service at the Pinakothek der Moderne, a modern art museum that holds more than 20,000 pieces, including works by Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí - and for a short time, the employee.
The employee, who was not named in the local report, hung up a painting measuring almost 2 feet by 4 feet. A spokesperson for the museum told Süddeutsche Zeitung they weren't sure how long the painting was up, but that they don't believe it was up for very long. The man is said to have had access to the exhibit in which his art was hung outside opening hours.
I'd love to think the painting had been up for years and no one noticed, because this is modern "art" we're talking about.
But more likely, it was only up for a few hours and kind of stood out.
Not only did the curators and supervisors of the museum remove the painting, and not only did they fire the desperate middle-aged artist, but they brought the police in to handle the guy because he drilled two holes in the wall to hang his masterpiece.
So now he's in trouble for destruction of property.
And all he wanted was to be discovered!
If he were famous, like Banksy or something, everyone would be praising him for his bold and artistic move. He should have just painted directly on the wall and everyone would have probably called it a masterpiece.
The incident came just weeks after the opening of a new exhibit by the performance artist FLATZ, who in 1979 "posed naked as a living dartboard," allowing spectators to throw darts at him, and in the early '90s swung upside down between steel plates, hitting the metal loudly for five minutes "until he fell unconscious," the museum says.
"The exhibition is devoted to FLATZ's radical concept of the body that, in an unmistakable way, repeatedly addresses the sensitive and fragile as well," the museum says.
Man, instead of hanging up a nice painting this man should have stripped down and let people take turns humiliating him! That's real art.
Anyway, I definitely wouldn't have fired the guy.
Call me crazy, but crushing the dreams of aspiring German painters hasn't turned out well in the past.
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