He lived most of his life in New York, where he attended the School of Visual Arts in the late 1970s and worked closely with Andy Warhol. Haring's career was short-lived. In 1988, he was diagnosed with AIDS and died at the age of just 31. Until his death, he used his art to raise public awareness of the disease.

The “Andy Mouse” is one of the most popular editions in Haring's oeuvre and is dedicated to his friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Here Haring finds the perfect way to unite his tendencies of graffiti art, pop art and comics in his strongly reduced, linear formal language with black contours and bright colors.

Haring and Warhol shared a great admiration for Walt Disney. So it comes as no surprise that Haring adapted the world's most famous cartoon characters and combined them with characteristic attributes such as Andy Warhol's tousled hair and glasses to create a monument to these two icons. The result is a tribute from one artist to another in the typical visual language of pop art.