144 pages 27 x 21 cm Language: German Paperback Publisher: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 1995
Between 1983 and 1995, Munich grew into one of Europe's earliest and most consequential graffiti scenes — a movement sparked, like so many on the continent, by Subway Art, Style Wars and the New York trains, then carried onto the city's own S-Bahn network by a generation of writers who made the Munich lines a canvas of their own. Writing in München is the first serious attempt to set that history down: hundreds of full-colour photographs of walls and train pieces, gathered alongside interviews, crew portraits and first-hand scene reports spanning more than a decade. The names that would go on to define German writing — LOOMIT foremost among them — move through its pages.
Issued as the third volume of Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf's pioneering Graffiti Art series — an early, encyclopaedic effort to document the movement across the German-speaking world — the book was an immediate reference and remains a cornerstone of any account of European graffiti. It is still cited in the scholarship on how the form travelled beyond New York.
Original 1995 edition, long out of print and increasingly scarce. A foundational document for collectors and researchers of the German and European scenes.
