Loomit

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Loomit (* 1968 in Celle , actually Mathias Köhler ) is a German graffiti writing artist.

His career began in 1983 in Buchloe , where he painted the water tower. After his first trial in 1984, he used the pseudonym Loomit. He lives and works in Munich .

The fence designed by Loomit at the construction site of the future Kaufbeurer Sparkasse headquarters / former Gasthaus Traube.

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In 1993 Loomit painted the private bathroom of the Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude . In 1995 he learned from graffiti artist Seen the tattooing in the Bronx .

He organized his first solo exhibitions in Darmstadt in 1996. In 2002 he received the Schwabing Art Prize from Christian Ude.

Beginnings

As one of seven sprayers, Loomit was involved in the design of the Geltendorf train in 1985 . The S-Bahn was the first train in Germany to be sprayed extensively with graffiti .

Projects

sign of time

Sign of the times . Otto-Schumann-Weg, Hamburg-Lohbrügge (Bergedorf)

Loomit was one of the artists of the wall design signs of the times . The work got an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the highest graffito in the world. Together with Darco , DAIM , Hesh and others, under the organizational direction of Lothar Knode, the graffito of a total of 300 m² was created in December 1995 on a high-rise facade in Hamburg-Lohbrügge . The artists needed 1000 spray cans for the 30 meter high and 11 meter wide work of art. It shows a composition of text and picture elements as well as quotations from masterpieces of wall painting.

Mural Global

As part of Mural Global , a worldwide Wandmalprojekt to Agenda 21 , realized Loomit in 2001, together with the Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gêmeos , Vitché , Herbert Baglione and Nina Pandolfo and with the German graffiti artists DAIM , Codeak and Tasek , a 300 m² mural in São Paulo. The mural is located under a viaduct of the Beneficência Portuguesa hospital on Avendia 23 de Maio and includes the theme of air, earth, water and fire .

80 murals have so far been created as part of the Mural Global mural project , an initiative of Farbfieber eV Düsseldorf, under the patronage of UNESCO . The project was awarded the Socioculture Innovation Prize 2002 by the Socioculture Fund.

Georg Elser graffito

Within view of Munich's main railway station, he created in the summer of 2017 on a 23 meters high and 11.4 meters wide facade of the City Savings Bank branch in Bayerstraße 69 along with WON ABC a large area of graffiti that the resistance fighter Georg Elser is dedicated.

Travels and influences on local scenes

Loomit traveled to countless countries to leave murals there. He shaped and influenced countless graffiti sprayers around the world. BG138 from the Tats crew confirmed in an interview that Europe is more progressive in some respects, for example also with regard to the 3D style and a very cooperative way of working, as characterized by Loomit and DAIM . Crome, a well-known Miami writer, talks about meeting Loomit and being impressed by how much planning he puts into his work. Miami writer Pest talks about how Loomit and DAIM came to Miami and brought (German) Belton spray cans with them. This changed the color palette of the domestic writers.

Movie

  • Loomit - Der Sprayer (Bayerischer Rundfunk / Arte, 2005. 43-minute documentary by Eike Barmeyer). In it: Loomit is the most important German graffiti artist.
  • If he could do it, he wrote down his name - Joseph Kyselak (1798–1831) : Loomit is visiting Vienna , works on the Danube Canal , takes part in the Levin-Statzer Jam and talks about his artistic beginnings in connection with graffiti ancestors Joseph Kyselak. Documentary film by Chico Klein and Gabriele Goffriller (ORF, 2008, 45 min).

literature

  • Oliver Schwarzkopf (Ed.): Graffiti Art: Deutschland - Germany. (= Graffiti Art Volume 1) 1st edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin (1994) ISBN 3-929139-58-8 .
  • Bernhard van Treeck : Writer Lexicon: American Graffiti. 1st edition, Edition Aragon, Berlin (1995) ISBN 978-3-89535-428-1 .
  • Bernhard van Treeck , Mark Todt: Hall of Fame: Graffiti in Germany. 1st edition, Edition Aragon, Moers (1995) ISBN 3-89535-430-9 .
  • Bernhard van Treeck : Graffiti Lexicon. Completely revised. New edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin (1998) ISBN 3-89602-160-5 .
  • Sebastian Krekow, Jens Steiner: There's a lot going on here: The German hip-hop scene. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin (2000) ISBN 3-89602-329-2 .
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2000: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 1 . getting-up, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006154-1 , p. 22nd ff . ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Bernhard van Treeck: The great graffiti lexicon. Lexikon-Imprint-Verlag, Berlin (2001) ISBN 3-89602-292-X , p. 261.
  • Mirko Reisser, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2001: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 2 . getting-up, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-007960-2 , p. 10 ff . ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Mirko Reisser , Gerrit Peters , Heiko Zahlmann (eds.): Urban Discipline 2002: Graffiti-Art . 1st edition. Urban Discipline: Graffiti Art, No. 3 . getting-up , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-009421-0 , p. 26th ff . ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] exhibition catalog).
  • Sascha Verlan, Hannes Loh: 20² years of HipHop in Germany. 2. revised Output. Hannibal Verlag, Höfen (2002) ISBN 3-85445-184-9 .
  • Typeholics: Hamburg City Graffiti. 1st edition, Publikat, Mainaschaff (2003) ISBN 978-3-9807478-6-8 .
  • Mirko Reisser , Lena Mwinkand, Sarah Behrend: DAIM: daring to push the boundaries . 1st edition. getting-up , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-00-014155-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2013] monograph).
  • Nicholas Ganz, Tristan Manco: Graffiti World: Street Art from five Continents. 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, London, UK (2004) (German Graffiti World: Street Art from five continents. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin (2005) ISBN 978-3-89602-677-4 ).

Web links

Commons : Loomit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard van Treeck : The large graffiti lexicon , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89602-292-X , page 125f
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 238, October 11, 1996, p. 18.
  3. ↑ 330 square meters of sparkling art. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. December 15, 1995.
  4. ↑ Farbfieber eV (Ed.): Who Owns the World? Mural-Global: Worldwide mural project on Agenda 21 . 1st edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89861-111-4 , p. 156 ff .
  5. ^ Mural Global. Sao Paulo - Hildesheim Hospital Beneficencia Portuguesa. Farbfieber eV, 2002, archived from the original ; accessed on February 4, 2014 .
  6. ^ Graffito memorial for Georg Elser in Munich on georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ Michiko Rico Nosé: New York City Graffiti. 1st edition, Graphic-sha Publishing (2000) ISBN 978-4-7661-1177-4 .
  8. ↑ James & Karla Murray: Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC. 1st edition, Gingko Press (2002) ISBN 978-1-58423-078-6 .
  9. ↑ Eric Felisbret: Graffiti New York. 1st edition, Harry N. Abrahms (2009) ISBN 978-0-8109-5146-4 , pp. 238ff.
  10. ↑ James & Karla Murray: Miami Graffiti. 1st edition, Prestel Publishing (2009) ISBN 978-3-7913-4162-0 , pp. 26ff.
personal data
SURNAME Loomit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köhler, Mathias (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graffiti artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle