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Hochstadenring

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… 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.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany - lower part of a mural, big feet with white socks and laced shoes, yellow knee pads that look like faces with long noses. Urban art by Falko.

below: Cheap Art (& Factorie 45) are located here. Also, there is body (of sorts) above those big feet. “Legs Alien” was painted by Falko.

pale blue electric scooter parked in front of street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, two murals, one is a tall alien character and the other is an abstract with a realistic brown animal face, poster for Cheap art

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).

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, mural on the side of building, blue sky and water background, books numbered 1 through 17, forming a curve that leads into a bridge that a child is walking on

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, mural by Marie Hesse, blue tropical birds surrounded by lots of greenery and trees

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).

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, mural by Marie Hesse, blue tropical birds surrounded by lots of greenery and trees, on a street with lots of red and white construction barricades

below: Big brown eyes, with a tack in the bottom corner of one.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, large pink face of a brown eyed man, lower part s covered with orange and yellow paint

below: Smile!

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, with the word smile beside it

below: Another Smile! This one looks like weather – there’s lightning, and raindrops, and clouds.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, another smile face

below: I almost missed it – This Petit Astronaute by Seileise (aka Tim Ossege) was hiding behind some very heavy pieces of metal.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, black and white stencil of an astronaut and three chickadees by Sieleise

below: Because I was trying to balance the metal pieces while holding my camera, the photo is not at the best angle.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany,black and white stencil of an astronaut and three chickadees by Sieleise

below: Purple lines, like purple crayon drawings.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, purple line drawing of a face

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, blue circle with flowers

below: Mahala

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: A big toothy grin, popsicle by NanE

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, y Nan E, a popsicle with a face, two big white teeth

below: The south end of Hochstadenring – vacant lot on one side, concrete wall on the other.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: Turn around, and look back where you came from.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: An alien life form and lots of scribbles.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: From the end of Hochstadenring you can see the next street over, Heerstrasse, and two faded older mural dating from 2015.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, two large murals painted in 2015

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: A closer look at the one on the left shows this scene

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

below: There was a flowing grid of different colours on the mural on the right but most of it has been covered with tags.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany

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.

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, sculpture of a big mouthed fish made from found objects

below: It would mooooo if it could……

street art on Hochstadenring in Bonn Germany, sculpture of a cow made from found objects

street art in Bonn Germany, on the wall under a bridge

Photos taken 31 October 2025

barber shop wheatpaste

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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.

a woman sits on a small stool outside of a barber shop, on her phone, all of exterior wall is covered with graffiti slaps, stickers, and paste ups,

below: Blue hair, purple hair, and a fat yellow bumble bee.

paper graffiti on an exterior wall, a woman with very blue hair that is tied up in two buns, one on each side of her had, also a big fat yellow bumble bee and a light blue doll by angry amily and lady mkei, with purple hair

below: These are Angry Amily drawings on brown paper

angry amily long haired young girl with green hat, beside brown teddy bear character, another fat yellow bumble bee

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.”

spam is the signature on blue graffiti, text graffiti by behind green eyes that says The tide is high my love is low but I'm hoping on, other text graffiti that says try before you die.

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.

paste up graffiti on a wall, 7 cartoonish characters in a column, all in different colours, the word merde has been written over each one in white ink or white marker,

below: A large blue cat by Metraeda prowls beneath a portrait in shades of brown.

two large paper wheatpaste, one is portrai of brown girl with long brown hair, and the other is a large blue cat (cougar, bobcat, lion?)

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.

graffiti image of pope benedict the 16th, holding a large pistol gun

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.

slaps and paste ups on a wall, a man in black pants and white shirt, playing a violin. sticker by nanE, another sticker by zoologne,

below: The signature seems to be RUDE and might be your opinion of the image as well.

RUDE stencil graffiti, young girl vomiting

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.

paste up by angry amily, black drawing on brown paper.

below: Bee nice or buzz off, as well as Support your local Antifa.

slaps and wheatpaste on a wall in the Belgian quarter of Cologne

below: Diskettenlaufwerk is actaully the name of an Ultimate Frisbee team. NanE (or Nanelife)

slaps and wheatpaste on a wall in the Belgian quarter of Cologne

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

stickers and pasteups on a wall in Cologne or Koln, urban art, Clint Eastwood as the savior, loves knows no conditions, a yellow happy face,

below: A cute little girl and an even cuter little red block with googly eyes.

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, little girl in orange dress, beer de froo, small red block with googly eyes

below: More paper.

many stickers pasteups on a wall in Cologne, The corona brothers, nane apple faces, paradoxon, black and white women's portraits,

below: Skulls and more

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, chicken, heart Joiny in blue, man, Nane fish, black bomb 4 skulls,

pasteups on a wall in Cologne or Koln, love rocks, a black and white portrait of a man,

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.

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, orange and blue chicken, anatomical heart divided into sections,

below: A big hug for Mopsy! Lots of love for an amazing character!

graffiti stickers on two metal poles, On the left at the top, are four monsters, 2 are purple, one is turquoise, and the fourth is yellow. All have big teeth. On the bottom, an orange cat is giving pug Mopsy a big hug. On the other pole is a weird green cow with text eat more weed

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.

4 graffiti stickers on 2 metal poles. Words by Luna, aka wortevonluna, in a round white sticker, another sticker is by tween street art with a kangaroo, an emu, some flowers, and lots of balloons. Another stricker id a my cute creatures image“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.

Photos taken November 2025