Everyone is an artist, at least if you believe the famous quote uttered by German performance artist and sculptor Joseph Beuys.
That was not the consensus after an incident at the Pinakothek der Moderne art museum in Munich, southern Germany, where one employee decided to take his art career into his own hands earlier this year — costing him his job.
The 51-year-old was hoping to achieve his artistic breakthrough, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported citing police sources.
A technical employee at the museum, the man installed his work in an exhibition room outside opening hours, said Tine Nehler, head of press and communications at the museum, in a statement to the ABC.
"As a result of this incident, he has been banned from the museum until further notice and his employment will not be continued," Ms Nehler said.
Despite the man's "high level of identification with their place of work", the termination of his employment was inevitable, as "employees must comply with the security concepts and must not endanger valuable cultural assets," she said.
"The presentations and exhibitions have been developed for the public by the curators with their thematic juxtapositions and deliberately staged dialogues. It is no fun to simply hang one's own work as a [disruption]," she said.
Ms Nehler said the work was taken down on short notice.
Police are investigating the incident as damage to property, as the man had drilled two holes into an empty wall in a passageway to hang his artwork, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported citing police.
It is unknown what the painting represented.
Consisting of four museums under one roof, Pinakothek der Moderne is one of Europe's largest museums for modern and contemporary art, architecture and design.
