Edelweiss Pirates memorial — artwork #11509 by Captain Borderline · Köln, Germany
graffiti fresque war noir-et-blanc history politique histoire
Artists
Captain Borderline is a Cologne collective founded in 1999, bringing together A. Signl, B. Shanti, Dabtar and M. Wallace. Their line is explicitly political: they paint large socially critical murals with caustic humour and an avowed taste for provocation, setting themselves the task of constantly erasing the boundary between utopia and reality. Mass surveillance, the distribution of wealth, anti-…
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Added 05/08/2026
Beneath the railway bridge, a wooden three-master sails across a blue sky, the banner "Edelweißpiraten" at its bowsprit and four teenagers aboard, among them a guitarist and a girl in an orange dress in the rigging. To the right, a synagogue bearing the Star of David disappears under black smoke, and along the whole lower edge a column of soldiers marches in grey silhouette. The hull carries the collective's painted signature.
The artwork Edelweiss Pirates memorial is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Köln in Germany, more precisely here: 356 Venloer Straße, Cologne.
This graffiti is also tagged as: fresque, war, noir-et-blanc, history, politique, histoire.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Captain Borderline
The photo was published on 05-08-2026 by Rabot.
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