His art is also created in passing – as passers-by or residents pass by in the district in which he is currently creating a colorful panopticon on walls. People tell him stories and memories, express wishes, which he then translates into paintings. Martin Blumöhr, who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and as a master student with Ernst Fuchs in Vienna, has focused on large-format murals with reference to the historical, cultural and architectural features of the place, for example in underpasses in Pasing an der Würm or on Landshuter Allee. “Public Viewing” is what he calls his series of mural art in his very idiosyncratic style with comic-grotesque influences, which he deliberately does not want to give a name to. His latest project, “Rabbit Hole” in the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl district, has driven the 43-year-old to the brink of despair.

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