(Berlin) East Side Gallery ★★★★★
Mühlenstraße 3-100, 10243 Berlin, Germany
You can enjoy artworks with various styles and understand artists' ideas and attitudes when the Berlin Wall was opened. Highly recommended if you are interested in these.
2023-05-17 WED
While she was taking more break, I looked around the East Side Gallery by myself.
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| Mercedes Plats |
I'm not a big fan of cars, and now I remember that Benz is German.
There is also graffiti on the riverside, but most of the paintings are on the other side.
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| Test the Rest - Birgit Kinder |
"The Test the Rest mural painted on the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, depicts a Trabant car that is breaking through the wall. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in Eastern Germany and therefore depicts the formal communist state of Eastern Germany. The mural was painted in 1990 by Birgit Kinder."
I reachd the western end.
"Art on the Wall - Colorful paintings appeared on a wall that previously been part of a tightly guarded border: When the Berlin Wall was opened in November 1989, the border stopped being a danger zone. In spring 1990, the GDR goverment authroised an art action planned at the Wall - and the East Side Gallery was born. 118 arts from 21 countries painted pictures on the Wall that expressed their joy, fears, and hopes at the time. ....."
The image of Asians was a little uncomfortable because it seemed to reflect how Europeans took Asians at those times.
The crippiest and saddest painting here.
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| My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love - Dmitri Vrubel |
Probably most have seen this image somewhere. I thought that this was some kind of joke but I learned that the socialist leaders actually kissed for reasons below.
"The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist leaders. The act demonstrated the special connection that exists between socialist countries, consisting of an embrace, along with a series of three kisses on alternate cheeks. In rare cases, when the two leaders considered themselves exceptionally close, the kisses were given on the mouth rather than on the cheeks."
"My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (Russian: «Го́споди! Помоги́ мне вы́жить среди́ э́той сме́ртной любви́», romanized: Góspodi! Pomogí mne výzhit' sredí étoy smértnoy lyubví; German: Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben), sometimes referred to as the Fraternal Kiss (German: Bruderkuss), is a graffiti painting by Dmitri Vrubel on the eastern side Berlin wall. Painted in 1990, it has become one of the best known pieces of Berlin wall graffiti art. The painting depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss, reproducing a photograph taken in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic."
The Elsen bridge is the eastern end of the gallery.
Just like a Berliner.
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