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- A technician at a German museum was fired for smuggling his own painting into one of its galleries.
- The worker hoped that displaying his piece there would bring him an 'artistic breakthrough.'
- The art world is hard to break into, often requiring skill, connections, and name recognition.
An art museum worker in Germany was fired after he smuggled in one of his own paintings and hung it up on the wall, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.