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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 Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1,316 m (4,318 ft) long ...
Jan 21, 2022 · With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and was largely demolished by 1990. Now its largest surviving stretch is the East Side Gallery – about 1.3 kilometres. The gallery is an international memorial for freedom, featuring 105 artists from around the world. The murals along the stretch hark back ...
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After some local Renovations 1996 (two images) and 2000 (40 photos) the entire wall and the paintings were rehabilitated in 2009. All remaining artists were again invited to Berlin to repaint their original designs from 1990 to the previously reconstructed wall. Thus, the East Side Gallery was established again.
The East Side Gallery is a place of remembrance of the division of the city and of at least 13 people who died here at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. It is a testimony to the euphoria of the fall of the Wall and at the same time a reminder of the sorrowful experiences of the year of upheaval 1990. The East Side Gallery is a monument in ...
The East Side Gallery is the longest remaining continuous section of the Berlin Wall and at the same time an open-air gallery. 118 artists from 21 countries painted and spray-painted 106 murals on this section in the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall, turning this relic of the GDR regime into a work of art and a symbol of joy at the peaceful overcoming of German division.
The East Side Gallery opened on September 28, 1990. The artists created murals with individual messages and statements, demonstrating that, in the end, the desire for freedom and creativity is stronger than sanctions and force. The more than 100 paintings showed the happiness felt over the fall of the Wall and the end of the Cold War.
The longest preserved piece of the Berlin Wall, standing between Ostbahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke, is known worldwide as the East Side Gallery. After the Wall fell, 118 artists from 21 countries redesigned 1.3 kilometers of the former border into the longest open-air gallery in the world. The East Side Gallery stands both as a symbol of joy over ...
