Manfred Kohrs

Manfred Kohrs (born January 24, 1957) is a German tattooist and conceptual artist, who has been tattooing since 1974. He was a student of Horst Heinrich Streckenbach ("Tattoo Samy") (August 5, 1926 - June 27, 2001). Together they developed a rotary tattoo machine from 1974 - 1978 and the barbell piercing in 1975. In 1977 Kohrs founded the first German Tattoo Artist Association.He gave up tattoing in 1990 and began studying economics.

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Manfred Kohrs
Birth dateJanuary 24, 1957
Birth place
Germany , Hanover

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  1. http://books.google.de/books?id=UnbYxhDijj0C&pg=PT186&dq=streckenbach/kohrs&hl=de&sa=X&ei=fr4fUo34LcqbtQaK2YDQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=streckenbach%2Fkohrs&f=false
  2. http://issuu.com/sattyainc./docs/magazine.compressed
  3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19781225&id=kXQjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2Z4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6736,6252583
  4. http://www.tattoo-bewertung.de/wissen/t%C3%A4towieren-aus-k%C3%BCnstlerischer-sicht