{"id":4119,"date":"2012-03-22T00:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2013-09-27T00:10:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:10:56","slug":"berlin-east-side-gallery-from-death-to-life-and-vice-versa-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/berlin-east-side-gallery-from-death-to-life-and-vice-versa-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin East Side Gallery: from death to life, and vice-versa"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Wall came down in Berlin<\/a><\/strong>, in 1989, more or less famous (at the time) artists, gathered and transformed the eastside of the Wall in the largest open air gallery in the world. The East Side Gallery<\/strong> is a special place, where art has become the expression for a new face in a new time: the time of Freedom.<\/p>\n

Between Oberbaumbr\u00fccke and the Ostbahnhof (east train station), along the former borderline that ended at the Spree \u2013 where the famous Museum Island<\/a> <\/strong>stands \u2013 and M\u00fchlenstrasse, the East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of The Wall, near the centre of Berlin, acclaimed as one of the best public art in the world.<\/p>\n

Approximately 106 paintings<\/a><\/strong> by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom. These paintings document one of the greatest times of change in Europe\u2019s history<\/a><\/strong>, and express the excitement and great hopes for a different future, better than that before the Wall came down.<\/p>\n

Yet by 1999, the images that used to go around the world started flaking off, they\u2019ve been over painted with graffiti and overwritten with signatures by tourists (awful,) and have been suffering decay caused by defacement, weather and air pollution, without being touched once for restoration. Sad enough.<\/p>\n

The problem is that, even though the East Side Gallery is one of Berlin\u2019s greatest landmarks<\/strong>, it still testifies a painful chapter of our past. So according to the saying \u2018if you don\u2019t see it, you don\u2019t think of it\u2019, the attraction seems to get more and more forgotten, and perhaps many quietly hope it might disappear one day\u2026<\/p>\n

When a public discussion started about removing it, the Wall-artists founded the K\u00fcnstlerinitiative East Side Gallery e.V<\/strong>., a registered society that fights for the East Side Gallery and its conservation. It has been, and still is, a successful fight.<\/p>\n

A restoration project<\/a><\/strong> launched in 2000, funded only through donations and private sponsors, managed to bring back about one-third of the East Side Gallery. Moreover, a well-funded 2009 restoration renovated much of the Gallery \u2013 just in time for the 20th anniversary of the \u201cFall of the Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The East Side Gallery is still at its original place. G\u00fcnther Schaefer\u2019s \u201cVaterland\u201d (Fatherland,) Narendra K. Jain\u2019s \u201cSeven Steps to Enlightenment,\u201d or the outrageous \u201cBrother Kiss<\/strong>\u201d between Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev depicted by Dmitri Vrubel, are still there. And they still make up one of Berlin\u2019s best tourist attractions. Everlasting, at least in our hearts, \u2018cause we should always forgive\u2026 but never forget.<\/p>\n

Foto di dalbera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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