German Museum Employee Swaps Painting for Fake and Sells Original to Fund ‘Luxury Lifestyle’
A former employee of a German museum has been convicted of stealing valuable artworks, including replacing one painting with a fake and selling the original to fund a luxury lifestyle. The 30-year-old man, who worked at the Deutsches Museum in Munich from May 2016 to April 2018, confessed to stealing “Das Märchen vom Froschkönig” (The…