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Berlin Wall East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery is a special place,
where art has become the expression for a unique point in time
of the history of a separated Germany. It is a meeting point
that talks about an old Berlin and a new Berlin, a separated
and a unified Germany.
Between Oberbaumbrucke (Oberbaum Bridge) and the Ostbahnhof,
along the former borderline that ended at the Spree and Muhlenstrasse,
stretches a unique picture palette that marks a sign of overcoming
inhumanity. After the Wall came down in 1989, hundreds of artists
from all over the world gathered and transformed the eastside
of the Wall that had been untouchable up to now, with their
paintings, giving the Wall a new face in a new time.
This new face is the East Side Gallery. The paintings at the
East Side Gallery document that time of change and express the
euphoria and great hopes for a better and different future that
characterized the time of when the Wall came down. The project
developed to an enormous picture wall with its over 100 paintings,
that unfortunately now, 10 years later, is in such a bad condition
that you can hardly see the colorful strength the paintings
expressed.
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