below: A Seileise stencil of a young girl with a small green plant in her bucket.
below: In the Ehrenfeld neighbourhood, Venloerstrasse intersects with railway tracks and this is the graffiti that covered one side of the arch before the street passes under the railway bridge.
A closer look at most of it –
below: Her shoes match her glass of red wine as she sits in a comfy chair. The other woman is a portrait by DISH and she sports bananas in her ears.
below: Fishes Invasion dominates this section of the wall…. but it’s not just an ordinary fish, it’s Joker Fish.
below: Lisson One yellow face among an assortment of little graffiti artworks.
below: A bird with a long white neck sits above 3 mall lids – a heart for love, a symbol of peace, and a yellow smiling face to represent happiness (or harmony?)
below: Seen here – A yellow woodpecker, a green and pink turtle, and an excitable little duckling who is looking for love.
below: The words are very small, but they say, “No place for love, peace, & harmony in this world”. But another little sign proclaims that “the heartest drug is LOVE!
below: Sheeptown 1 euro stamp, Candy by cinnirelli, End gender racism by lille-illus
below: Fight 4 ur rights. Plus a very small “Aut of Order” where a rainbow flows out of his head as it is tied up by several tiny people.
below: Feel the vibe.
below: Swordplay
below: “Be Kind to your mind” and “Das leben ist schon (life is beautiful)”. Both are by bierdeckelstreetart whose artwork is mostly text based.
below: A platter with one puppy and one kitten, and the words “immigrants food service” written above. But further down the wall, a young white boy and a young black boy walk arm in arm.
… is a street in Bonn that ends in a dead end (for traffic). There are buildings only on one side of the street because the other side is a concrete wall that helps support Guido-Westerwelle-Brucke as it rises to form a bridge over the railway tracks.
below: Little long-nosed knee pads for someone with big feet.
below: Cheap Art (& Factorie 45) are located here. Also, there is body (of sorts) above those big feet. “Legs Alien” was painted by Falko.
below: Books coming together to form a bridge – this is “World Construction” by Anthony Dipaola and Adolfo Torrico. There are 17 books in the stack and each one represents a Sustainability Goal such as No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Gender Equality, and Affordable Energy, etc. It is painted on the side of Kult 41 cultural center (and beside Bonn’s Central Mosque).
below: This mural by Marie Hesse is a recent addition to the neighbourhood. It is a tribute to Expressionist painter August Macke (1887-1914) and is her interpretation of a Macke painting “Mädchen mit Blauen Vogeln (Girl with Blue Bird) (the museum, August Macke Haus is nearby).
below: Big brown eyes, with a tack in the bottom corner of one.
below: Smile!
below: Another Smile! This one looks like weather – there’s lightning, and raindrops, and clouds.
below: I almost missed it – This Petit Astronaute by Seileise (aka Tim Ossege) was hiding behind some very heavy pieces of metal.
below: Because I was trying to balance the metal pieces while holding my camera, the photo is not at the best angle.
below: Purple lines, like purple crayon drawings.
below: Mahala
below: A big toothy grin, popsicle by NanE
below: The south end of Hochstadenring – vacant lot on one side, concrete wall on the other.
below: Turn around, and look back where you came from.
below: An alien life form and lots of scribbles.
below: From the end of Hochstadenring you can see the next street over, Heerstrasse, and two faded older mural dating from 2015.
below: A closer look at the one on the left shows this scene
below: There was a flowing grid of different colours on the mural on the right but most of it has been covered with tags.
below: Street art of a slightly different sort – the next two photos are large whimsical sculptures that were probably made from found objects. They add some fun to the courtyard of Kult 41.
… a few things seen as I walked around Dusseldorf on a rainy day.
below: At the train station – not really street art? But it’s a colourful addition to a grey platform.
below: One of the original pieces of street art in Dusseldorf is this large yellow Monkey that appears to be painted by a group of smaller monkeys. It was painted in 1969 by the Majo Brothers. The title is, appropriately “Affe” which is German for monkey. You could probably call it Der Gelbe Affe, or the Yellow Monkey.
below: Joseph Beuys is memorialized in this large portrait – he was a native of Dusseldorf who was influential in the development of the city from the 1960s until his death in 1986. One of his famous phrases is, “Everyone is an artist”.
below: Complex and largely symmetrical in shades of pink and purple is one way to describe this mural by HowNosm (or How & Nosm), a partnership between brothers Raoul and Davide Perre.
below: This is a large-scale, monochrome mural realistically depicting a person’s feet as they stand. They are wearing old boots (or shoes) and you can also see the bottom of their pant legs in the image. The artist was Hendrik Beikirch (aka ECB).
below: “Meat is Murder” he says as he holds out a sausage.
below: “No more wore” written on the Ukrainian flag.
below: Floral dog on a black and white slap, image by Christin Wenga.
below: Sad face with a blotch of yellow on his forehead.
below: “Nix Gelernt?” Nothing Learned?
below: In the center, raising the flag but it has been altered from the original photograph of the American the flag being raised at Iwo Jima on 23 Feb 1945 to an Anarchist flag. In the bottom corner is a small League of Legends sticker
below: His burning inside produces enough hot air to keep him afloat. There is a word written on his T-shirt which might give some clue as to the artist who created this large paste-up but I haven’t been able to find any answers online.
below: The thirteen of hearts and a pinwheel of robotic arms.
below: mmm
below: A bright green potted barrel cactus “growing” on a concrete wall.
below: Another dusseldorf monkey, not so big this time.
below: A lot of advice packed into a small space. “Don’t Panic”, “Be Big”, as well as “Never ever on a first date”.
below: Red head.
below: Framed twice.
below: For aspiring photographers – here is one way to display your work. Do you think that is effective? Worth the effort?
below: I’m not sure who it is, but they have very big black and blue lace-up shoes.
below: In the Belgian Quarter of Cologne, where the streets are named after Belgian cities, there is a barber shop (and hair salon) where the exterior wall is covered with paper.
below: Blue hair, purple hair, and a fat yellow bumble bee.
below: These are Angry Amily drawings on brown paper
below: Another section of the wall – The portrait, lower left, is probably about Sophie Scholl and the white rose movement. Scholl (1921-1943) was a German student who was active in the White Rose Movement, an anti-Nazi organization at the time of Hitler’s rule. She was executed on 22 Feb 1943.
below:Evyrein’s Elon Musk/Mask is in the middle. Notice the little Hitler mustache. Also, the placement of Elon’s body over the stiletto heels is marvelous! To the right of Elon is a little pink octopus hanging onto a red heart by 8arms2hug, a maker of octopus-themed street art.
below: Cats and rappers. Garfield is on his phone while under a three-eyed cat. The three men are Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell of the hip hop group RUN-DMC. The group was formed in 1983.
below: The images of people on cans of spray paint is the work of The Postman. Much of his art focuses on celebrities, many of whom, such as Grace Jones and Sid Vicious pictured here, have appeared on these spray paint cans. Tweet cat (now sporting a German fedora) sneaks into the photo too.
below: Many little things can be seen up near the top of the wall.
below: “The tide is high; my love is low” by Behind Green Eyes, is reminiscent of lyrics from song by Blondie, “The tide is high but I’m holdin’ on, I’m gonna be your number one.”
below: A series of cartoonish characters in various colours form a column beside a window. Lots of merde there too but I am not sure if that is part of the original drawings or if they were added after.
below: A large blue cat by Metraeda prowls beneath a portrait in shades of brown.
below: Pope with a gun. Pope Benedict XVI in fact. The hat in this picture is the same as the hat worn by Benedict XVI in the picture used by Wikipedia. It is an image of Jesus holding a cross while he sits with two sheep.
below:Zoologne, aka Marcel Kreutzer is the creator of the small round sticker with the oval yellow happy face standing beside a plant. There are quite a few similar stickers all over Cologne. As for the fiddler, I have no idea who produced that image.
below: The signature seems to be RUDE and might be your opinion of the image as well.
below: An unhappy green bomb with a microphone. Or at least it looks like a comic drawing of a bomb – that way I can say that it’s unhappy because it’s bombing on stage.
below: Reading cross-legged on the floor.
below: Bee nice or buzz off, as well as Support your local Antifa.
below: Diskettenlaufwerk is actaully the name of an Ultimate Frisbee team. NanE (or Nanelife)
below: Clint Eastwood is portrayed as The Savior in this paste-up. Actually there is quite a bit here – a very small pink Ghostcat, a yellow smiley face, a NanE slice of bread, “Love knows no conditions” text by BehindGreenEyes, as well as a pink and black portrait by Pixmen… and more
below: A cute little girl and an even cuter little red block with googly eyes.
below: More paper.
below: Skulls and more
below: It looks like a chicken in orange and blue as well as an anatomical heart with slight modifications. Perhaps that’s where his heart lies, or where it longs to be.
below: A big hug for Mopsy! Lots of love for an amazing character!
below: Encouraging words by Luna in a white circle with an Australian themed sticker by Tweet below it (kangaroo, emu and balloons!). On the other pipe are two creatures. The one on the bottom is a collaboration between MyCuteCreatures and Joiny.
“Sei doch mal – Nicht so streng mit dir – Du hast die wahl – immer, jetzt und hier” br>
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a choice, always, now and here.
Walls of Vision, “Wald” by Shaleen Faussner. This was the winning image in a competition for young artists. One of the requirements was that the piece had to be a modern Interpretation of the historical artwork. Faussner chose “Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest” by Henri Rousseau. The artist duo innerfields (aka Holger Weissflog and Jakob Bardou) helped translate the winning image into the much larger size that was needed.
below: “Schöner leben ohne macker” = Better life without machos. (These are available as stickers from Etsy where they have the translation as “Live better without a bloke” – similar yet very different).
below: Ludwig von Beethoven’s image is all over Bonn. Here, it’s mostly just his eyes that you can see.
below: Helicopters bring relief that many (half?) of you will relate to.
below: Parakeet on a pink heart – as an aside, there are noisy parakeets in the nearby cemetery.
below: Du bist schön = You are beautiful
below: Smoochies with a very pink, and very happy, flamingo
below: Many little pieces
below: Birds on a wire – but one just has to be different.
below: Homeless astronaut
below: PEZ dispensers, one with a red floppy eared dog and the other is Wednesday Addams. PEZ candies (actually officially known as Pfefferminz), in their special dispensers were invented in Austria back in 1911.
below: Another PEZ dispenser – I think that he came from Star Trek? He’s accompanied by a few other paste ups.
below: Trouble Makers on Heliosstrasse in Cologne. There was a Paste Up Festival in August of 2025 here that was organized by Street Art Against Hate. Although that was a couple of months ago, lots remain here on this wall and many other walls on the street.
below: Some of the paste-ups found on the “Trouble Makers” wall.
below: On the left is a cross-eyed orange Pummel Fee Fart Fair (and I wish I knew what words were in the thought bubble above his head!). On the right is a MyCuteCreatures little cat with two even smaller friends between her ears.
below: One of these dogs has a peach coloured sweat shirt adorned with eyelashes and lips, by Miss GlueInverse (she calls her work analog collages). To the left of that dog is a woman cutting her long hair with a pair of blue scissors by Kalaa Baar.
below: An interesting phone conversation? And a bearded man in sunglasses and a bear (cat?) suit.
below: At the bottom, a pink Nadroschka pretends to be modest.
below: Another MyCuteCreatures and a second Mopsi. This time Mopsi has a bat on his neck and the words read, “Good boy, Bat habits”.
below: “I love Cologne” – but that cat seems too excited! So Schoen Immer Wieder is a German street artist who is responsible for the paste-ups of her pug ‘Mopsi’, most of which have cute/interesting words. In this case, the words are “easy, peasy, lemon squeezy”. The little blue dog also comes with words (same artist? I don’t know). It’s sign says, “You did so well today”.
below: On the right is a black and white drawing by SheepArt Cologne (aka Klaus Schaefer) while sleeping in the bottom left corner is a small drawing by French artist Balaet Balaets (viens, on rêve). A very full purple trash can sits in the middle. Is that a yellow balloon in the garbage?
below: Tweet cat (seen in Melbourne!) has teamed up with Mario while a little furry nose pokes his nose over the wall.
below: “Wer mit Dreck wirft verliert am Boden” which Google translates to “Those who throw dirt lose on the ground” which, by the sounds of it, may not be precise!
Meet Senor Schnu – you’ll know him by his black mustache, his brown stick body, and the bite out of his head. This half eaten popsicle is the creation of Philip Wallisfurth. He has his own Instagram page.
below: Spreading Schnumunism like Chinese propaganda
below: A large paper paste-up of a rainbow flavored Senor Schnu hovers above the owl.
below: A kiss for the big guy
below: Snowy, Tintin’s little white wire fox terrior, is carrying this Senor Schnu in its mouth – running off to have adventures?
below: Senor Schnu, a wanted criminal in a Dick Tracey cartoon.
The German word for mustache is schnurbartt Photos taken October 2023
below: An old window on Dircksenstrasse covered with paste ups and other graffiti. The top left pane has two posters with words.
First: ” Nichts andert sich, ausser ich andere mich. Alles andert sich, sobald ich mich verandere” which translates to “Nothing changes unless I change.Everything changes as soon as I change.”
Second (& longer): “Erwartet nicht, dass die anderen euch das Leben, die Liebe oder die Frohlichkeit bringen. Ihr musst zuerst in euch selbst die QUellen des Lebes, der Lliebe und der Freude offnen. Um zu empfangen, muss man mit Geben beginnen”, or in English: “Do not expect the others to bring you life, love or happiness. You must first open in yourself the sources of life, love, and joy. To receive, one must begin with giving.”
below: A closer look at the bottom part of the window. On the right is a poster playing on the famous painting ‘American Gothic’ (1930) by Grant Wood. The red noses means that it’s the work of MIMI the ClowN
On the left are more words. This time they say “Helft einander. Liebt einander, jeden, alles, jedes, Blatt jeden Lichtstrahl. Vergebt.” or in other words, “Help each other.Love each other, everyone, everything, every, leaf every ray of light.Forgive.”
below: Nearby is another old window with more graffiti. The larger yellow poster says: “Das Universum Liebt dich und hil– dir” or in English, “The universe loves you and helps you.”.
On the right: “Dein schones Herz ist voller Gute. Verschenke diese Liebe und Gute uneingeschrankt an die Geschopfe der Welt.” which translates to “Your beautiful heart is full of good. Give away this love and goodness unrestricted to the creatures of the world.”
In both of the above posters the words are credited to #Azmuto. He is the author of self-help, motivational type books so I suspect that these posters are self-promotion as much as anything else. I’m not sure how that fits into the “advertising vs street art continuum” but they don’t scream ‘buy me’ so I have included them here.
The pictures on this page are all of paste-ups from artist SOBR‘s project, “It’s Time to Dance”. They feature life size images of people dancing, alone, in couples, or in groups along with a lot of glitter. There pictures were taken in August 2018 at which point the paper had been on the wall for a few months.
below: They share the wall space with a lot of other pasteups such as this chicken – dancing with the chicken? Or maybe not because this chicken seems to have lost her head.
below: Party time!
below: The young girl in pink and purple is a paste up by TONA
below: Even the little green guy is dancing but I doubt that it’s because of happiness. His pockets are empty and he’s precariously balanced on a Euro.
While walking in Wedding, a part of Berlin, last summer I came across three tall images by Edward von Longus, an Estonian street artist. In fact, it’s his little hedgehog on a laptop graffiti that is sometimes at the top of this blog.
These are what I saw:
below: These figures are part of (R)estart Reality an app that facilitates combining street art and digital technology. Apparently there were 100 ‘people’ in many European capitals with a story to tell to those who have the app. The program began in June 2017 and I am not sure if it is still running.
It was in celebration of Estonia’s 100th birthday.
“Sei doch mal – Nicht so streng mit dir – Du hast die wahl – immer, jetzt und hier” br>
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a choice, always, now and here.
Eyes on the Streets 