Seat of the Revolution

Dustmen in Frankfurt are being sent back to school after accidentally destroying an important piece of modern art.

It comes after they collected, crushed and burned a stack of plastic yellow sheets, reports the Guardian.

The sheets were part of a city-wide exhibition of modern sculpture by Michael Beutler, a graduate of Frankfurt's St�el art school.

Thirty of the dustmen are now being sent to modern art classes to try to ensure that the same mistake never happens again.

The head of Frankfurt's sanitation department, Peter Postleb, took personal responsibility for the mistake.

"As the weather was bad I thought it was construction workers who had dumped their materials on the street and called my people to come and take it away," he said.

He only realised his mistake a few days later when he read about the exhibition in a local paper.

"I instantly called the depot, but they told me that it had already been thrown into the incinerator," he said.

Embarrassed, Mr Postleb contacted Beutler, who, he said, took the news well.

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