The employee hung his own painting in the museum. Harsh consequences

The additional work of art was noticed quite quickly – shortly after the gallery opened on February 23, employees realized that there was something hanging on the wall that had not been there before. It was decided that the painting would remain until the museum closed so as not to raise unnecessary questions from visitors.

A technical worker hung his own work of art next to Warhol’s paintings

As a result of a short investigation, it was determined that the perpetrator was a 51-year-old technical employee who had access to the museum also outside opening hours. The spokesman for Pinakoteka Nowoczesna said in an interview with “” that the man considered himself an artist and working in the museum was his calling. He hung the work of art he made at home, with considerable dimensions of 60 by 120 cm, in the place that seemed most appropriate to him – near Warhol’s works, in the eastern wing on the first floor.

The unfulfilled artist paid a high penalty for realizing his dream. He was removed from his job and banned from entering the Modern Pinacoteca in the future. In order to hang his own painting, the man drilled two holes in the wall. The employer filed a report against him for destruction of property.

“” informs that hanging the work was supposed to provide him with a “breakthrough in his career”. The museum gave it back to him after removing it from the wall. The matter has only now become public.

The Modern Pinakothek in Munich is one of the largest museums of contemporary art in Europe. It contains over several dozen thousand works, showing the development of art from 1900 to the present day – earlier eras are presented in other Munich pinacotheks: the New and the Old. Nowoczesna includes, among others: works by Picasso, August Macke, photographs by Andreas Gursky and light installations by Dan Flavin.