26+ Berlin Wall Memorial Graffiti
The kiss depicts soviet leader leonid brezhnev giving the east germany president erich honecker what appears to be a passionate kiss on the lips.
Berlin wall memorial graffiti. Memorial of the berlin wall. Look beyond the graffiti see 17 777 traveler reviews 10 209 candid photos and great deals for berlin germany at tripadvisor. The initial barbed wire fence introduced in the 1960s grew into a sophisticated security system of concrete walls electric fences and guard towers separating the east side from the west embodying all the anxieties of the cold war in the most concrete of senses. Let s first globalize responsibility. If you are interested in the berlin wall its construction political implications and history then we recommend also visiting the berlin wall memorial. What s left of the wall that is. Pictures from the last years of the gdr show a wall caked in a matrix of political graffiti.
The most striking and renowned murals to adorn the berlin wall include dmitri vrubel s fraternal kiss and birgit kinder s trabant breaking through the wall. Shame about all the needless graffiti see 17 775 traveler reviews 10 208 candid photos and great deals for berlin germany at tripadvisor. The murals are painted in a wide range of styles from new york style graffiti to classic japanese paintings. The former eastern section of the berlin wall has been painted by many unknown graffiti artists. One of the common places in many texts that deal with the evolution of berlin street art scene is that it began on the west side of the berlin wall. Berlin wall view from the west berlin side of graffiti art on the wall in 1986. Map of the location of the berlin wall showing checkpoints general information type wall country east germany east berlin soviet occupied sector of berlin coordinates construction started 13.
The wall s death strip on the east side of the wall here follows the curve of the luisenstadt canal filled in 1932. Memorial of the berlin wall. Multilingual messages range from overt calls for unity make love not wall to taunting humor nyet nyet soviet to philosophical musings doubt is the substance of nothing. The berlin wall birthplace of local graffiti culture.