Art & Fiscal Fraud

It must also be of intercultural worth to mention that many of the "art galleries" in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, only function as public screens that hide other realities in their core.  Here is an example in one random gallery in the city, it displays the "works" of a local photographer, of course a native German; probably a relative or friend in the food chain that constructs the "art gallery" in mention:

The arts on display are prints on canvas, under the reproduction technique called "gliclee", a high resolution printing technique used to duplicate high quality images that are intended to replace original works when the museums decide to protect very expensive originals behind metal doors. In the gallery of this example, the "artworks" that are said to be produced by the German photographer, were clearly made with the Photoshop software. Besides each "artwork" the viewer will see a price tag. The viewer is surprised to see "prices" of four thousand Euros per piece, and up. Little by little, a researcher may come into the account of what happens behind the screens:

The directors of the art "gallery" receive monies from a German governmental "art and cultural" foundation. The foundation grants 75 percent of the annual capital required by the gallery to be in function. The other 25 percent must be brought up by the gallery, or by a third party or corporation.  In this way, the "art gallery" receives up to one hundred and fifty thousand Euros per year to bring forth the "gallery" as a social implementative project to society, culture and education.

In many cases, the "art galleries" function under a combination of "funding sources" all coming down from German government grants.  Whole salaries for the board of directors, reception and rentals are paid through the government granting program, but the "directors" do not always work for that income. As proven by demonstrable facts, some of the "directors" are already mainly sitting in their offices doing not much while awaiting for their retirement to come... in a couple of years. The system of cultural administration, particularly on the service of society and education, is a bureaucracy negotiated private arrangement that has nothing to do with the Art, or with the contemporary artist.

Much worse happens with the German film industry: It is not a secret that with a few exceptions, there are no good movies being produced in Germany since generations. But, the annual costs for film production are also budgetted out of the state treasury.  The funding is then shared equally with the "directors" of the worst imaginable film productions. In fact, such films won't pass the initial presentation to the public (mostly friends and relatives of the film maker). However, hundreds of thousands of Euros are granted per year for the "production" of less than average German film productions, which only keep up the salaries of key "film directors" and staff positions in the opportunist administration of a system riddled by mediocrity.