Thousands of colours on the firewalls and stairs

The mood of the Hungarian cities is not only defined by its main attractions but by the works of street artists, too. They appear in the most surprising places of the cities, for example, on the firewalls or stairs, some appearing only to be nice decorations making the city attractive, some have even deeper meaning.

Firewalls and colourful bridgeheads

Budapest is still keeping the memories of the past boisterous decades. There are many buildings which are badly in need of a renovation, and the lot of empty building sites do not improve the image. Since 2011, many walls have been decorated as part of the so called TűzfalRehab program and the Colorful City Festival Budapest turned the least beautiful part of the city into a colossal canvas. The idea of the movement comes from the painter Victor Vasarely. The members of the program have already turned more than 20,000 square metres of wall into works of art since 2008.

Among others, one of the ugly walls of Nagy Diófa Street got a mural in October 2016. With the participation of Hungarian, Polish, British, Spanish, French and Russian artists altogether 1800 square meters  of wall were decorated in the city and nearly 2500 litres of paint was used. On 13 October a painting got to one of the walls of Dob street: the picture is in memory of Ángel Sanz Briz, Spanish diplomat, who saved the lives of thousands of people, made by the Spanish graffiti artist Okuda San Miguel.  The 6×6 metre picture is part of the “Wallpainting for Freedom” project, which aims to commemorate the Spanish diplomats who saved thousands of Jews during World War ll.