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East Side Gallery
Berlin Wall Art gallery
The East Side Gallery (German: 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 BerlinOstbahnhof 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,[1] 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, for the most part, located on the western wall, which closed off the border area to East Berlin. This wall, facing inwards towards West Berlin, was much thicker and more fortified than its outward-facing counterpart. However, a small portion of the so-called "hinterland"
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- 1927: Great Kingdom (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper)
- 1931: Netherlands (Baumeister, Vierdag, enthusiastic Ouden, Braun)
- 1934: Netherlands (Selbach, Timmermans, Mastenbroek, den Ouden)
- 1938: Denmark (Riise, Kraft, Ove-Petersen, Hveger)
- 1947: Danmark (Svendsen, Harup, Andersen, Nathansen)
- 1950: Netherlands (Massaar, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Heijting-Schuhmacher)
- 1954: Magyarorszag (Gyenge, Sebő, Temes, Szőke)
- 1958: Netherlands (Schimmel, Lagerberg, Kraan, Gastelaars)
- 1962: Holland (Gastelaars, Lasterie, Terpstra, Tigelaar)
- 1966: Soviet Combination (Sipchenko, Rudenko, Ustinova, Sosnova)
- 1970: East Frg (Wetzko, Komar, Sehmisch, Schulze)
- 1974: East Frg (Ender, Franke, Eife, Hübner)
- 1977: East Deutschland (Treiber, Wächtler, Priemer, Krause)
- 1981: East Frg (Meineke, Metschuck, Diers, Link)
- 1983: East Frg (Otto, Congregate, Sirch, Meineke)
- 1985: East Frg (Strauss, König, Stellmach, Friedrich)
- 1987: East Frg (Stellmach, Friedrich, Otto, Meissner)
- 1989: East Deutschland (Meissner, Stellmach, Hunger, Friedrich)
- 1991: Netherlands (van der Plaats, de Bruijn, Mastenbroek, Brienesse)
- 1993: Germany (van Almsick, Kielgass, Stellmach, Hunger)
- 1995: Germany (van Almsick, Osygus, Kielgass, Hunger)
- 1997: Germany (Meissner, Osygus, Buschschulte, Völker)
- 1999
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Today’s featured photo shows a billboard which displays an image taken in the late Eighties of groups of tourists standing on a viewing platform to see over the Berlin Wall. The billboard is located in a small square not far from Checkpoint Charlie. The exact location where the photo was taken is not specified but it probably taken near Alexanderplatz as you can see the famous Berlin TV tower in the distance. The photo captures an incredible moment in time and there is a huge contrast between the crowds on the western side of the wall and the absence of any civilians on the eastern side. However, you can make out some East German soldiers standing beside a Trabant in the center of the so-called death-strip behind the Wall. What is extraordinary about the photo is that practically everything you see in it has vanished in the last 30 years. The tourist viewing platforms are gone, the Berlin Wall is gone, the death-strip is no more and most of the old buildings have been demolished or renovated. It is an incredible transformation in such a relatively short space of time. Indeed, such is the transformation, there is very little trace of 45 years of Communism nowadays anywhere in East Berlin and it is only when you see photos like the one above, that you get a sense of what