Streetart in Munich City Center
It’s a nice Sunday morning and I’m on the way to Munich. The idea is to stroll a bit through the city center to take a look at various places with street art. There are more (and even bigger) places with street art in Munich, but except for one spot on the way out of town, I wanted to keep it within walking distance.
I park my car near the Angel of Peace [↗] (Friedensengel in German language), where it’s easy to find parking on Sunday mornings.
The Friedensengel, or rather a passageway under it, is my first destination. In 2011, a group of international artists painted the walls of this underpass, where the walking paths along the Isar River pass under the monument.
From here I continue my walk, passing the southern border of the English Garden. I briefly watch the surfers at the Eisbach wave and finally reach the Siemens Headquarters in Munich.
Here I want to take a look at the sculpture „The Wings“ [↗] by Daniel Libeskind. It’s one of three with the other two standing at Siemens locations in Erlangen and Berlin.
The sculpture is quite large for the space available and since it can be illuminated with integrated LEDs, I put it on my watch list for an evening visit. I also take a look at the inner courtyards to take a picture for my “looking up” Series.
Nearby is the shopping center “Fünf Höfe” [↗]. “Höfe” stands for courtyard, and this is how this center was created: Connecting five courtyards with arcades and shops.
In one of the courtyards, you can find the sculpture “8-Ton Spiral Ball” by Olafur Eliasson. Again, you need a very wide-angle lens to photograph the sculpture as a whole, but it is also possible to focus on individual details.
The Café Glockenspiel [↗] and its well-known staircase have nothing to do with street art, but as I’m close by, I visit it as well.
The staircase is in a private building, but as the Café (from which you have a nice view across the Marienplatz, by the way) is upstairs you can enter it to take some photos.
The next stop I planned was another sculpture in the courtyard of the Angerhof. I have trouble finding it until I realize that the courtyard, I was looking for is closed for construction.
There are more places with street art in Munich, but they would lead me further away from my car. The way to here (not counting the detours) is close to 4 km and I want to make one more detour not to walk back the way I came.
Even if we have a nice and sunny day I want to check the old southern graveyard [↗] nearby. It’s definitely not the right weather (especially as it’s close to noon in the meantime) for some great photos, but I want to know if it’s worthwhile to come back when the weather is more suitable. To make the long story short: It is and so I will keep it on my to-do list.
I return to my car and even though I know some additional spots I could go for; I decide to just visit one more on the way out of town.
I drive to the western part of Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, a district in the northwest of Munich. Here is a pedestrian tunnel [↗] crossing the Landshuter Allee with more graffiti. Painted in 2017 the murals are in good shape and so I spend some time here to view them and find the details I want to take photos of.
