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An aspiring artist who worked for a museum in Germany may soon be of the starving variety after he was fired for surreptitiously placing one of his own paintings in a gallery of contemporary works. The weird incident, which came to light this week by way of a German newspaper, reportedly occurred in late February at the Pinakothek der Moderne in the city of Munich. Taking advantage of his role as a maintenance worker at the museum, the unnamed man slipped past unsuspecting security guards with his painting in tow and proceeded to hang it among various modern works of art.
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