"German museum sculpture falls victim to cleaning lady
Published on Nov 4, 2011
BERLIN (AFP) - A cleaning woman at a German museum who mistook a sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition, a spokesman for the western city of Dortmund said on Thursday.
The cleaner at the city's Ostwall Museum went to work on the Martin Kippenberger installation entitled When It Starts Dripping From The Ceiling which was valued by insurers at 800,000 euros (S$1.4 million), she said.
The late contemporary master had created a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water.
Taking it for an actual stain, the cleaner scrubbed the surface until it gleamed."
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