Investors in projects endangered in recent years, the preservation of the legendary Open-Air gallery. Now the East Side Gallery of the Berlin wall Foundation, which wants to professionalize the tourism around the monument.
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East Side Gallery
Tourist Attraction East Side Gallery
It is one of the most photographed places in Berlin: the East Side Gallery. On a 1.3-Kilometer stretch of the Berlin wall, many artists have immortalized their thoughts about the reunion in pictures. Dimitri Vrubel was one of them, at that time a completely unknown art student from Moscow. He painted the “brotherly kiss” between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The image was iconic, Vrubel world-famous.
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East Side Gallery
Reminder to wall dead
The East Side Gallery extends to the rear wall, the stand, the times of the GDR in the East of the city, and before the actual Berlin wall. Between the wall and the border wall of the death strip with watchtowers and patrolling soldiers, who had orders to shoot “Republic refugees”.
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East Side Gallery
The Open-Air Museum under the monument protection
28. In September 1990 the East Side Gallery was opened. Many works of art have found their way into the collective memory of Germany and on post – cards printed in a Berlin souvenir shop. So Thierry Noir “tribute to the young Generation”. Since November 1991, the East Side Gallery is a historical monument.
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East Side Gallery
Controversial Renovation
Since the wall is exposed to Wind and weather, tourists and wall woodpeckers, it must be always renovated. In October 2008, the works of art should be removed completely and the artists once again re-applied. Some refused, but most were, however, so that the majority of the pictures could be restored.
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East Side Gallery
Art-flash mob at the East Side Gallery
The German Pop-Art artist Jim Avignon has immortalized in 1990, with his picture “Doin It Cool For The East Side” the East Side Gallery. In 2013, he got the headlines because he had painted over by art students without official approval. Many artists criticized his night-and-fog action.
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East Side Gallery
Investor pushes for partial demolition
For the construction of a high-rise building construction workers displaced in 2013, portions of the East Side Gallery. The resulting six-Meter-wide gap was to the construction Site. This led to protests: citizens of Berlin and a prominent advocate for a freeze – unsuccessfully. Meanwhile, the residential tower stands, 80 percent of the apartments are sold. In the middle of 2015 all the construction works should be completed.
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East Side Gallery
Wall will expire rapidly
Although some artists have repaired their works several times over or painted over, fade a lot of pictures, more and more, and be defaced with Doodles. The wall is currently in a “pitiable condition,” says artist Thomas sound stone, formerly a GDR opposition activists, who also designed part of the East Side Gallery.
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East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery on the canvas
In January 2015, the documentary “Berlin East Side Gallery” came to the cinema. The filmmakers Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies document, which breaks the Open-was exposed to the Air gallery since its renovation in 2009. The artist Thomas blades stone very much hopes “that this Film helps protect the piece of wall”.
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East Side Gallery
Tourist Attraction East Side Gallery
It is one of the most photographed places in Berlin: the East Side Gallery. On a 1.3-Kilometer stretch of the Berlin wall, many artists have immortalized their thoughts about the reunion in pictures. Dimitri Vrubel was one of them, at that time a completely unknown art student from Moscow. He painted the “brotherly kiss” between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The image was iconic, Vrubel world-famous.
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East Side Gallery
Reminder to wall dead
The East Side Gallery extends to the rear wall, the stand, the times of the GDR in the East of the city, and before the actual Berlin wall. Between the wall and the border wall of the death strip with watchtowers and patrolling soldiers, who had orders to shoot “Republic refugees”.
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East Side Gallery
The Open-Air Museum under the monument protection
28. In September 1990 the East Side Gallery was opened. Many works of art have found their way into the collective memory of Germany and on post – cards printed in a Berlin souvenir shop. So Thierry Noir “tribute to the young Generation”. Since November 1991, the East Side Gallery is a historical monument.
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East Side Gallery
Controversial Renovation
Since the wall is exposed to Wind and weather, tourists and wall woodpeckers, it must be always renovated. In October 2008, the works of art should be removed completely and the artists once again re-applied. Some refused, but most were, however, so that the majority of the pictures could be restored.
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East Side Gallery
Art-flash mob at the East Side Gallery
The German Pop-Art artist Jim Avignon has immortalized in 1990, with his picture “Doin It Cool For The East Side” the East Side Gallery. In 2013, he got the headlines because he had painted over by art students without official approval. Many artists criticized his night-and-fog action.
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East Side Gallery
Investor pushes for partial demolition
For the construction of a high-rise building construction workers displaced in 2013, portions of the East Side Gallery. The resulting six-Meter-wide gap was to the construction Site. This led to protests: citizens of Berlin and a prominent advocate for a freeze – unsuccessfully. Meanwhile, the residential tower stands, 80 percent of the apartments are sold. In the middle of 2015 all the construction works should be completed.
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East Side Gallery
Wall will expire rapidly
Although some artists have repaired their works several times over or painted over, fade a lot of pictures, more and more, and be defaced with Doodles. The wall is currently in a “pitiable condition,” says artist Thomas sound stone, formerly a GDR opposition activists, who also designed part of the East Side Gallery.
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East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery on the canvas
In January 2015, the documentary “Berlin East Side Gallery” came to the cinema. The filmmakers Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies document, which breaks the Open-was exposed to the Air gallery since its renovation in 2009. The artist Thomas blades stone very much hopes “that this Film helps protect the piece of wall”.
In the future, there should be no further construction on the 1.3 kilometers, it’s the longest Open-Air gallery. The settlement of media companies in the large-scale project Mediaspree, the construction of a large had a requires multi-purpose hall on the other side of the street, as well as office buildings and a residential tower on the banks of the spree since the beginning of the zero years of far-reaching restructuring and the preservation of the East Side Gallery under threat.
The wall part piece, as well as the adjacent plots of land were transferred to the Berlin wall Foundation. There is no development plan, said the Foundation’s Director, Axel Klaus Meier on Wednesday (21. November) in Berlin. Berlin’s cultural Senator Klaus Lederer spoke of a “day of joy”. For the preservation of the monument and the care of the area of Berlin provides an annual 250,000 euros.
Crowd-puller: Around three million visitors come annually to the East Side Gallery, here
After the opening of the wall were painted in 1990, 118 artists from all over the world-the wall-part piece. In the following years, the arts have been rehabilitated works, some disappeared, new ones have sprung up. For international Protest of the planned and eventually carried out a transfer of multiple segments made in 2013, in order to create in the course of a construction project for luxury apartments a passage.
Ambivalent History
The Area will now become a commemorative, educational, and art facility. Although about three million visitors come each year to the East Side Gallery, however, it lacked a professional infrastructure. An exhibition about the history of the place, is planned, among other things, Klaus Meier said.
Protest against construction projects: David Hasselhoff 2013
The ambivalent history must in future be better prepared: “on the one Hand, as an artistic testimony and a Symbol of the joy of the peaceful Overcoming of the German division, and on the other hand, as a testimony of the inhuman border regime.” Alone in this piece of the Berlin wall at least ten people came between 1961 and 1989, claimed the lives of.
Now the files should be rolled up in order to inform better about the history of the Berlin wall monument.
tla/so (with epd)