If you know Wagner and his Ring cycle, you know about Siegfried and the dragon. The Nibelungen are said to have had their palace in Worms, in the Upper Rhine Plain. So no wonder that images of dragons can be found in the town.
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This mural, created by Holger Kurt Jäger, adorns the outside wall of a children’s daycare centre. Inside the grounds the artist worked with the children, painting walls and using stencils:
Another wall was decorated a few years earlier, unfortunately there are spaces for cars right in front.
Another mural on a Monday, seen in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the outside of a nursery. The artist is Holger Kurt Jäger.
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A schoolyard in Hesse, slightly faded. For Monday Murals.
While the big whale isn’t strictly speaking a mural but a sculpture on Roker Beach in Sunderland, the techniques – painting on concrete – are the same.
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The mural might be wishful thinking considering the building on which it is painted:
This is from Lorsch, Germany, and it is, of course, a Monday Mural. More murals can be found here.
These huts are housing amenities at a new playground in Mörlenbach, Germany. Perfectly appropriate to brighten the site, I think.
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And I could have used this for Travel with Intent‘s theme of the week: multicoloured.
These two are quite famous in Germany and are credited to be the predecessors to modern cartoons. They are the creation of writer and artist Wilhelm Busch. Even if you don’t speak German have a look at the book.
A pharmacy in Bad Homburg, a town near Frankfurt, Germany, has taken their name and their adorned its premises with their likeness.
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For once, I found a mural with a signature – Christian Schopp (but no additional information on the artist, except for his mobile phone no. in the corner ). This is on the side of a newspaper kiosk in Bad Homburg, where magazines, tobacco, and lottery tickets are sold.
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These murals are on two separate block of flats, marking the corner of a parking area. They are created in the same mosaic style but one is a framed panel of about 5 by 2 metres, whereas the other one covers the whole side of a two storeyed house. (Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany)
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I spotted this collection of murals under a bridge and in the close of vicinity of that bridge in Lüneburg, Germany.
I like the two tone colour – blueish-grey and yellow – at the opposite spectrum of the colour wheel. Because of the underpass and of severe time constraints (I was running with a group) these photos don’t show off the whole beauty of the arrangement.
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