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It's the kind of fame - or rather infamy - he probably didn't want.

An employee of an art museum in the southern German city of Munich is in trouble with the police after he secretly hung one of his own paintings in his place of work.

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 Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported, citing police sources.

A police spokesperson said the museum filed a complaint about damage to property on Monday. The employee allegedly drilled two holes into the gallery wall to hang his art.

Presumably, the picture only had a brief moment in the spotlight.

"The supervisors notice something like this immediately," a spokesperson for the museum told the newspaper.

Additional details about the painting, such as its style or theme, were not revealed.