Art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallery

Staff member put work on display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne ‘in hope of achieving his breakthrough’

Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne. Picture: Oleksandra Zelena/Pexels

One of Europe’s largest museums for contemporary and modern art has fired a member of its technical services team after he was found to have hung one of his own paintings in the gallery.

The 51-year-old man had smuggled his work into the display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing police sources.