BAHNWÄRTER THIEL
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BAUREFERAT
In the mid-1980s, Munich's building department began copying and measuring pieces on the city's walls. None of the artists were aware of this at the time, and only found out 40 years later.
BEASTIESTYLEZ
beastiestylez.de, IG @the.beastiestylez
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BEASTIEstylez is an artist from Munich. In her pictures, she tells little stories that remind of Alice in Wonderland, Pipi Longstocking or a fairy tale from the fairy forest. At the centre is a female protagonist, often with a little companion at her side. These usually take the form of animals, mythical creatures or well-known comic characters. Floral elements are also a constant companion in all her works.
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BLASH
IG @triptonious
A prominent member of the first generation of graffiti artists in 1983, Blash started spraying early on, founded the Blash Loomit Corporation with Loomit, and later joined one of Munich's most famous crews from 1984, The Force.
In the winter of 84-85, Blash had sprayed a piece at night on the flea market grounds, Dachauerstrasse and was surprised by the Austrian artist Gerhard Drache, who had his studio there. Enthusiastic about Blash's work, he supported Blash and later also Loomit. Drache introduced the two young artists to the flea market tenants, the Spitzbarth brothers, who then legally authorised the walls, which became the first internationally known Hall of Fame.
Blash also was part of the famous Geltendorfer Zug of 1985, the first whole train which he sprayed with Don M. Zaza, Cheech, Loomit, Roy, Roscoe and Zip.
Besides art and making music, Blash currently organises local and international culture & music events.
DER BLAUE VOGEL
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derblauevogel.de, IG @the_blue_bird_official
The famous blue bird from Munich has many talents and appears regularly on walls. Created by the ADK crew, the Blaue Vogel references the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), one of the most important avant-garde art collectives of the early twentieth century.
With it's members Zwist, Dout, Pyser, Kult, Köbes and Sanz they have worked on numerous projects and murals abroad, including Austria, Croatia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, the Netherlands, France, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, China and Indonesia.
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During Oktoberfest season every year, the artists create a piece that brilliantly incorporates local news and current topics.
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BOND TRULUV
truluv.de, IG @bondtruluv
Born in 1981 Bond became involved with graffiti-writing at the beginning of this millennium. Since then he has eagerly committed himself to examine new ways of composing letters and calligraphic ways of expression, as well as modes of fine arts and graphic design. Being a true multimedia artist he is constantly experimenting with different materials such as canvas, installations, video mapping and long exposure photography. Lately he focused on new technologies and was the first Graffiti artist to embed augmented reality (AR) animations into his pieces, pushing the boundaries of urban contemporary art further ahead and creating spectacularly vivid images, morphing reality and dimensions within the pieces and the locations they are applied in.
BOSCHETSRIEDER STREET
Closed tramway line surrounded by walls and ending in a tunnel (Trambahnlinie 16) in Munich-Sendling, Boschetsriederstrasse.
BRUDERMÜHL BRIDGE
The Brudermühlbridge is located in the south of Munich, crossing the Isar River and linking the districts of Sendling and Untergiesing. Since the mid-1990s, the concrete columns have regularly been decorated with graffiti by artists as part of the Dosenöffner art project (formerly known as ISART).
B-TON
b-ton.net, IG: @_b.ton
Munich artist known for his characters who, in addition to graffiti workshops and participating at spray events, also specializes in designing T-shirts using the screen printing process.
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BUNTLACK
IG @buntlackteam
The Buntlack Team with its members Alois, Chew, Fast Foward, Kort, Le Discoboulet, Riko de Janeiro and Shamey is a collective of graffiti artists from Munich and Berlin.
They are well known for participating in events such as the Deadline Festival, for painting the pillars at Donnersbergerbrücke, and for working with clients such as Sony and Willy Bogner.
BURNS124
IG @bernard.lesaint
Burns124 started graffiti in 1984 after watching Style Wars, making his tag in New York-style by adding his street number - 124 - to it. In Munich Burns studied graphic design and teamed up with artists Emka and Elf to bomb the local commuter trains, walls and hall of fames. Today Burns124 is a well established artist, known for participating at spray festivals and creating regularly - along with his crew the Jukebox Cowboys (JBCB) and the Wonderful Years crew (WY) - large murals, which can be found across town.
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BUTLER
Butler a young talented artist, uninfluenced by the NY graffiti, sprayed in the early 80s mainly by himself in Munich's university district Schwabing. Calling himself Butler, he focused more on characters inspired by the popular Philip Marlowe figure. Today Butler is a well-known artist, publishing his work in newspapers and magazines, illustrating children's books and specialising in hidden picture puzzles in which he uses caricatures and comic characters.
"The people are somehow important to me; I do all of this for them, after all. My name is an allusion to simply spraying pictures that people like. It was a spontaneous idea to spray gangsters. I used to enjoy reading Raymond Chandler's crime novels back then. And the character who keeps appearing in my pictures is indeed the hero of these novels: Philip Marlowe." (source: Treek, 2001)
