BERLIN...East Side Gallery

The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The actual border at this point was the river Spree. The gallery is located on the so-called "hinterland mauer", which closed the border to West Berlin.

  Right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East Side Gallery was painted by 118 artists from 21 different countries. Using various artistic means, the artists commented on the political events that took place in 1989 and 1990 in over 100 works of art found on the eastern side of the wall.

 Take the Subway in Alexanderplatz and get off at Warschauer Strasse and walk towards the river… you cannot miss them...then take the subway again at the Ostbanhof which is where the wall ends.

Artwork walls have mostly with graffiti .. I wonder how they can prevent those scribbles..
but some famous works are still there...

I don't mind visiting this again...as I look on the artwork..it makes
a mockery of politics on war, not only in Germany, but all over the world.

  I really enjoy strolling along the wall with all the different pieces of art and graffiti.
 I hope this wall stands through time.

A must see when in Berlin. The wall itself is massive, colorful and interesting..
which was once divide the whole city.

The Berlin Wall was the largest canvas in the world. Much of the artwork was not claimed by artists and remains anonymous. Because the wall was open to everyone, there were no restrictions on what artists could put on the wall. Painting had been prohibited on the east side of the wall during the Cold War, so not a lot of new art has been added since the 1990s.

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, one of the better known Berlin Wall graffiti murals, depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a fraternal embrace, reproducing a photograph that captured the moment in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic.

As I see the artworks ..it just let me ponder how much this wall divided so many people,
with suffering and oppression. On the contrary, the fall of the wall is the symbol of the new freedom in Europe – especially the painted pieces that are all over the world now.

"Don't  be  another 
Brick  in  the  wall..."

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References:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall_graffiti_art