Cuckoo clocks at the cutting edge of street art? Unlikely though it may sound, German artist Stefan Strumbel has given a provocative twist to a Black Forest tradition -- and it is going down a storm.
When Germany's iconic fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld was photographed in front of a lurid cuckoo clock in German magazine Stern on the occasion of his 75th birthday, many readers were baffled. But for the young German artist Stefan Strumbel, it was the "ultimate accolade" to have his art selected by the influential pony-tailed doyen of German fashion.
On first seeing Strumbel's cuckoo clock, adorned with guns and antlers, at a fashion shoot Lagerfeld had reportedly exclaimed: "A new expression of German culture, how stimulating."
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