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# Art for Art's Sake
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3397/
- Published: 2005-12-20T01:17:20.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-20T01:17:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

> A German art expert was fooled into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee was the work of a master.

> The director of the State Art Museum of Moritzburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Katja Schneider, suggested the painting was by the Guggenheim Prize-winning artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay.

> "It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay. He was famous for using such blotches of colour," Dr Schneider confidently asserted.

> The canvas was actually the work of Banghi, a 31-year-old female chimp at the local zoo.

And it's not even a monkey from a sophisticated household:

> While Banghi likes to paint, she is not able to build up much of a body of work as her mate Satscho generally destroys her paintings before they can get to the gallery.

[Link](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17606986-13762,00.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).