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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OMP - Orchestra Miniature in the Park - at Jaja-Verlag @jajaverlag.bsky.social Ladenlokal-Eröffnung, (Berlin-Kreuzberg, Friesenstr. 13) Ein wundervolles Konzert, tolle Stimmung! Alles Gute, Jaja, am neuen Ort! ##jajaverlag #urbanskating #urbansketchers

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Herolde", Rathaus / Townhall Bremen. USk Deutschland-Treffen 2026. I liked the smug pose of the knight with the mustache. What a man! Drawing alongside Sketchermax, Nicola Maier-Reimer and Sibylle Lienhard. #uskbremen2026 #urbansketching #urbansketchers

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Paris. Looking for a car to draw, Sylvain Cnudde and I came across this cute Ape Vespa Piaggio 1978 at Rue Jourdain, XXieme. The owners "La fee en bulle" run a confiture artisanale business. Delicious ! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Paris, XXe arrondissement. Drawing alongside Sylvain Cnudde . The bar on whose terrace we were sitting closed at 18h, so we went on to look out for a car to sketch ... ' #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskparis #travelsketch #sketchbook

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

14tn International Urban Sketchers Symposium 2026, July, 16-19 in Toulouse, Taking part as an independent sketcher this time. Meeting fellow sketchers from around the world. Exchanging ideas sketching together and having fun… Great event, great city!! Thank you! #usktoulouse2026 #usksymposium2026

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Pitting cherries on a hot day in Berlin. / Kirschen entkernen an einem heißen Tag in Berlin-Tempelhof. #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #drawingonlocation

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

20 DOT Sketchers from UK on their tour to Rotterdam met with 4 German sketchers. Four days of drawing + talking, superbly organized by Anne Rose Ooosterbaan (NL) An interesting city with its tragic history of destruction by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and its reconstruction in modern architecture.

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Drawing with the Urban Sketchers Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof on Sunday. It was wonderful to meet so many sketchers! Thanks to Isabelle Spicer for organizing it! Installation (and text) by Petrit Halilaj. #Urbansketchers #urbansketches #urbanskeching

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Sketching together with Urban Sketchers Bremen in the Übersee Museum. Very nice get-together with interesting talks in the museum café afterwards. Thank you, Urban Sketchers Bremen! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskbremen

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

EXIL Podcast launch event, Nov 10, #staatsbibliothekberlin. Episode 1 is dedicated to Lily Renée (1921–2022) Forced to flee Vienna in 1939 -in the 1940s known as a successful female #comicartist. EXIL =collaboration between the Leo Baeck Institute NYC | Berlin #lbi and the @bpb.de #urbansketching

exil podcast launch event. Comic artist lily renee. reportage drawing

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Meeting Urban Sketchers Vienna in the Naturhistorisches Museum, sketching together dinosaur skeletons and having a nice drink and chat afterwards. Thank you Vienna! And thank you, Oliver Hoeller for being such a patient and entertaining guide to Vienna! #Urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

East Germany 1986. In an old sketchbook, I discovered sketches from 1986 of a guided tour to VEB Schwarze Pumpe, GDR, organized by SEW Westberlin. It was quite a peculiar experience at the time. #urbansketching #ddr #schwarzepumpe You can view it on my sketch blog: sketches.surrey.de/1986/11/17/v...

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VEB Schwarze Pumpe, DDR 1986 – Detlef Surrey Skizzenblog

In einem alten Skizzenbuch entdeckt: 1986. Informationsreise mit der SEW Spandau zum DDR Kombinat VEB Schwarze Pumpe. Die westberliner Genossen...

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Humboldt Forum Berlin October sketching meetup of Urban Sketchers Berlin on Sunday at the Humboldt Forum, followed by chat and drawing at Café Lebenswelten. Very nice, as always. Thank you Eva Hoefflin for organizing! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #drawingonlocation

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Every day, a lone barrel organ player sings in front of the Russian House in Berlin, Friedrichstraße , protesting against the war and Russian aggression against Ukraine. #reportagedrawing #urbansketching #berlinusk #urbansketches #reportageillustration #standwithukraine

standwithukraine protest in front of the Russian house in Nerlin

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Rettet die Bäume am Tempelhofer Damm! Kundgebung am 27. September 2025 um 12.30 Uhr, gegen die Fällung von knapp 200 Bäumen und den Verlust weiterer 100 Bäume am T-Damm durch Wurzelschädigungen während der Sanierungsphase 2027 bis ca. 2037. Es sollen nur etwa 28 Bäume übrig bleiben!

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Meeting with Gabi Campanario from Seattle, the founder of Urban Sketchers, (who vitited Berlin to participate in the Berlin Marathon) at Neptunbrunnen fountain. It was great to meet and sketch and talk together! ¡Hasta la próxima! :-). #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Sketching with Gabi Campanario (great to meet you in Berlin!) from Seattle. Neptunbrunnen fountain, with Marienkirche and Fernsehturm TV tower. #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketchingonlocation

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. View from the town hall onto the market square. Schlossplatz. #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #uskstuttgart #urbansketching

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. Opening and closing events with the exhibition at the Stadtpalais and drink & draw at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. It was superbly organized by the USK Stuttgart organizing team! :) #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #urbansketching

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. The "Palast der Republik" on Börsenplatz is an extremely lively place, where hundreds of guests gather every evening to chat and have a drink. @uskstuttgart2025 @urbansketchers @uskstuttgart #urbansketching #uskdeutschlandtreffen

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Pete Scully @petescully.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Urban Sketching made the CBS Evening News! youtu.be/gmDF2hKpDnI?...

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Urban sketching movement pops up around the world

YouTube video by CBS Evening News

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Humboldtforum Berlin, Festival "Durchlüften". Saturday Jul, 9, Son Rompe Pera. #usk #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskberlin

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Three days in Strasbourg on my way back from Urban Sketchers Lyon to Berlin. A very nice afternoon with Strasbourg sketchers Lolo Wagner and Nathyi Regner, who taught me how to say “cheers” in Alsatian: “S’gilt!” 🙂 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #travelsketch #sketchbook

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Some more sketches from 12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France - Lyon 2025, June 7-9. Merci beaucoup, USK Lyon !! #usklyon2025 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage #usklyon

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France, Lyon 2025 USK Lyon hosted the 12th USK France meeting 2025 in Lyon, June 7-9. 1000 sketchers captured their impressions the of the beautiful city. Merci Lyon, c'etait super !! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #usklyon2025 #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Amsterdam sketches. On a short trip to Amsterdam I meet Haarlem sketcher and friend Anne Rose Oosterbaan to chat and draw together. Thank you for the great afternoon!

Amsterdam, Magere Brug, Urban Sketch, drawing on location

Amsterdam, Prinsengracht, Café, urban sketch, drawing on location

Amsterdam, Prinsengracht / Reguliersgracht, urban sketch, drawing on location

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Skizzentage Weimar - A motivated group of sketchers from Weimar invited us again this year to sketch together, create, eat together, exchange ideas and explore Weimar!

Skizzentage Weimar 2025, sketchers event #skizzentageweimar2025

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Visiting an old friend in Wallersdorf, Germany. Enjoying an after work drink in his carpenter’s workshop. #urbansketch #urbansketching #sketchbook #onlocarion

Urbansketch, sketching on location, carpenter's workshop, sketchbook, #afterwork

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I will have the pleasure to be part of the 13th International USK Symposium in Poznań ! My Lecture: „The Wall Revisited – Search For Traces with my Sketchbook“ (LS 02) It will take place on Saturday. August 23rd. Hope to see you there! 🙂

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Berlin, Brandenburger Tor, March 9, 2025. Demonstration in support of Ukraine in the fight against the Russian war of aggression. @campact #standwithukraine

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Sketches from Bern, Switzerland. 3rd Swiss Urban Sketchers Symposium 2021. #urbansketches #urbansketchers #uskswitzerland

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Urban Sketchers (OFFICIAL) @urbansketchers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

THE WAIT IS OVER! We are delighted to unveil the faculty lineup for this year’s Urban Sketchers Symposium in Poznań, Poland from 20–23 August 2025. 😍 Registration opens on March 15th! #urbansketching urbansketchers.org/2025/02/10/a...

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Demonstration "Lichtermeer gegen Rechts" - "A Sea of lights against right-wing extremism, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today. #urbansketches #urbanskerters #uskberlin

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I had the pleasure of accompanying the Świdnica #urbansketchers Festival 2024, as a reportage illustrator. Great atmosphere and lots of enthusiastic sketchers! Thank you, USk Poland! sketches.surrey.de/2024/08/19/u... Looking foreward to the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2025 in Pozńan! #urbansketching

Urban Sketching Festival Swidnica 2024. Sketchbook. Urban Sketchers.

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Detlef Surrey - Illustration @detlefsurrey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My 2024 Best 9 sketches on CARA. Visit my profile on CARA app -> cara.app/detlefsurrey #urbansketchers

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