Berlin Southside //// Friedrichshain Kreuzberg
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"Die Mauer" is still visible in parts of Berlin. After the Fall of the Wall, artists have turned it into the largest open-air gallery in the world with over one hundred paintings.
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Peter Russell - Himmel und Sucher
The East Side Gallery ( East-Side-Gallery) memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,316 m (4,318 ft) long remnant of the Berlin Wall, located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
In the spring of 1990, after the opening of the Berlin Wall, this section was painted by 118 artists from 21 countries. The artists commented on the political changes of 1989/90 in a good hundred paintings on the side of the Wall that was formerly facing East Berlin. Due to urban development measures, it is no longer completely preserved, and instead of the originals from then, only the replicas from 2009 exist today.
The actual border at this point was the Kreuzberg bank of the Spree. The gallery is located on the so-called hinterland wall, which closed off the border area to East Berlin. Mühlenstrasse, one of the main arterial roads to the south, ran along these border installations. Due to the spatial conditions, the previously usual concrete pipes were already installed here, so that the interior wall in this area was atypically optically, but somewhat elevated, resembling the outer wall.
Two of the six pieces of the Berlin Wall that are on the site of Dalhousie University's Agricultural College in Colchester county in Nova Scotia.
Deux des six morceaux du mur de Berlin qui se trouvent sur le site du Collège d'Agriculture de l'Université Dalhousie dans le comté de Colchester en Nouvelle-Écosse.
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De la serie "Muro de Berlín"...
Berlin being torn apart by communism. Taken during a visit to Berlin in 1983. Scanned from an old slide.
The Berlin Wall has had an interesting history since it was breached in 1989. People seem to want a piece of it and slowly Berliners realized not much was left. The six sections at Potsdamer Platz are covered in chewing gum, a show of disdain for a hated symbol of division perhaps. There are now attempts to get preservation orders in place on what remains. 1.3kms of sections of the Wall have been gathered here at the East Side Gallery and street artists from across the world have been invited to decorate it. This section stands next to the north bank of the river, looking across at where it once actually stood on the other side.
"The fence between us has to go." Taken during a visit to Berlin in 1983. Scanned from an old slide.
at the Berlin Wall and the Brandenburg gate . long ago i spent Christmas in Berlin , after a long drive in a cold VW van from London .
I did a sketch on 21 Jan 2011 on the same location. The difference is that the trees have grown taller and there is now a bistro on the left. I went there for a coffee only to find out that it open from 5pm to 11pm.
From my last post:
Bedok Reservoir near my work place is really quiet during lunch hours. There are four panels of Berlin Wall enclosed in a glass box in this circular pavilion. I thought something of this significant nature should be displayed in the busy city area for more people to see. On the panels, there are the pictures of two kings, one smiling, one sad, drawn by grafitti artist Dennis Kaun in the weeks following the fall of the Wall. This motif of the two kings has been repeatedly painted and repainted on the Berlin Wall long before it fell. They are called "Kings of Freedom".
The day the panels were unveiled, the authority said this would be an attractive spot in the park and a bistro will be built as an extension to the Berlin Wall installation. One year has passed and there is still no sign of the bistro.
you can see my last sketch here - www.flickr.com/photos/tia_studio/5385511955/