page_title: Eduardo Kobra
section_title: Biographical overview
hierarchical_section_title: Eduardo Kobra / Biographical overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Niemeyer by Eduardo Kobra
context_page_description: Eduardo Kobra, known as Kobra, is a street artist who officially began his career in 1987 at 12 years old, in his hometown of São Paulo. Since then he has painted over 3,000 murals on five different continents. Some of these murals are commissioned while others are his original, raw ideas. Kobra now works with a team of artists who paint between two and four murals each month. To this day Kobra continues to live and work in his hometown of São Paulo.
context_section_description: Eduardo Kobra grew up in São Paulo which is known for being a large, but lower-class city in Brazil. His father was a weaver and his mother was a housewife. He did not get any official academic training, but became a well known, self-taught artist. Before he started his official art career, he enjoyed illegally tagging walls which eventually lead to several arrests throughout his teenage years.
caption: Portrait of Oscar Niemeyer by Eduardo Kobra, on a building in São Paulo.
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